Health Informatics

Patients with the same illness often receive the same treatment, even if the cause of the illness is different for each person. This represents a new step towards ultimately being able to offer every patient more personalised treatment.

Adewole S. Adamson, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at the UNC School of Medicine, found that patients given electronic prescriptions were more likely to pick up and fill their dermatological prescriptions than those patients who were given a traditional, written prescription.

Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, according to a letter published today in Lancet Global Health, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information.

Researchers complete a first-of-its-kind project to evaluate a large-scale genomic data management system on the scale of up to one million genomes

Network connectivity has changed the face of healthcare invention. Electronic health records, around-the-clock patient monitoring, remote doctors, and more are providing high functionality to an industry that needs it most. Additionally, there is a growing need for new medical devices, as well as improvements on existing devices. If you’ve got an idea for a new device, there’s never been a better time to bring it to market.

The key to giving a patient the most accurate diagnosis is to have all their health data in one place. Traditionally, paper based records were used to record medical information, and these had to be mailed from one primary care physician to another. Now, in the information age, it’s easy to electronically transfer information from one medical specialist to another or from one hospital to another. This way the attending physician has everything they need to understand the patient’s medical history.

UCLA, Purdue computer scientists develop technique for combining massive sets of research data

MIT spinout helps health-care providers schedule patients more efficiently.

Consortium to enroll 150,000 Illinois participants

Crowdsourcing clinical data from some 40,000 patients could vastly improve research and critical-care decisions.

ANN ARBOR—The vision for broad sharing of clinical data through Health Information Exchanges is a bit hazy, according to two University of Michigan research studies that show the number of public exchanges has declined, and sharing by private electronic health record vendors isn't taking place as intended in all markets.

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