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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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