GE Healthcare Announces Participation By Centricity Health Information Exchange Services At 2008 IHE Connectathon

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

GE Healthcare IT announced that many of its Centricity(R) solutions, including Centricity Health Information Exchange (HIE) Services, passed important integration profiles established by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). The IHE testing process is a critical step in achieving systems interoperability to enhance the quality of patient care. Many of these ...

Poor Working Memory May Be To Blame For Children’s Under-Achievement

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Children who under-achieve at school may just have poor working memory rather than low intelligence according to researchers who have produced the world's first tool to assess memory capacity in the classroom. The researchers from Durham University, who surveyed over three thousand children, found that ten per cent of school children ...

Elsevier’s Illumin8 Research Tool Helps Corporate Research Professionals Answer R&D Questions

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the launch of illumin8 (http://www.illumin8.com/), the first web-based research tool that integrates natural language search technology with content from Elsevier's full-text scientific articles, millions of scientific abstracts, patents and billions of web sources to give users ...

UM Scientists Create Technology For Analysis And Forecasting Of Terrorism

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, most importantly, to network with other analysts examining the same subjects. SOMA ...

Mechanism Of Blood Clot Elasticity Revealed In High Definition

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Blood clots can save lives, staunching blood loss after injury, but they can also kill. Let loose in the bloodstream, a clot can cause a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism. A new study reveals in atomic detail how a blood protein that is a fundamental building block of blood clots ...

Reducing Global Warming By Tracking Your Carbon Footprint

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

An innovation called Carbon Hero may help reduce global warming by making people more aware of their carbon footprint. Regional prize winner in the 2007 European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme, the device uses satellite navigation technology to track journeys. Concerned about global warming, many people are ...

Electron Filmed For First Time Ever

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, and the results are presented in the latest ...

Robust New Technology Platforms Aid The Search For Cancer Vaccines

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Although the cancer vaccine industry has remained historically undervalued due to its failures, optimism surrounds the industry as proponents of this technology have persistently pursued investigations to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of cancer vaccines. Cancer vaccines hold the potential to treat patients at an earlier stage of the disease, which ...

RemedyMD And Dell Team To Deliver Solutions For Information Based Medicine And Research

Monday, February 25th, 2008

RemedyMD®, Inc., a pioneer in the field of predictive informatics, announced collaboration with Dell Inc. to deliver integrated solutions to physicians, researchers, and institutions involved in Information Based Medicine. RemedyMD's Investigate™, a software suite specifically designed to enable clinical and translational research institutions to capture, integrate, and aggregate all the data ...