Making medication alerts in electronic medical record systems more useful and...
A study by Regenstrief Institute and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs investigators provides the first in-depth look at how health care providers react to medication alerts generated by electronic...
View ArticleText messages help patients with long term conditions stick to their meds
Text message prompts can help patients living with long term conditions stick to their treatment programmes - at least in the short term - indicates a review of the available evidence, published online...
View ArticleDoctors who dictate their notes have worse quality of care than those who use...
Could the quality of care you receive be affected by how your doctor takes notes? According to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), doctors who dictated their patient notes...
View ArticleResearchers create powerful new method to analyze genetic data
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have developed a powerful visual analytical approach to explore genetic data, enabling scientists to identify novel patterns of information...
View ArticleResistance training improves some inflammatory markers
(HealthDay) -- Resistance training (RT) can reduce visceral fat and alter levels of certain inflammatory markers, according to research published in the July issue of Obesity Reviews.
View ArticleGPs using unreliable websites for tinnitus information, study finds
GPs are not always using the most comprehensive and reliable online resources to support them in treating patients with the debilitating hearing condition tinnitus, researchers have found.
View ArticleStudy reveals teenage patients attitude towards social media and privacy
A study of how chronically ill teenagers manage their privacy found that teen patients spend a great deal of time online and guard their privacy very consciously. "Not all my friends need to know": a...
View ArticleStatistical method will analyze important, poorly studied areas of human genome
(Medical Xpress)—Each year, more and more pieces of the human genome puzzle fall into place, but large holes still remain. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hope to fill in many more...
View ArticleElectronic health records shown to improve the quality of patient care
A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality...
View ArticleSurgeons may use hand gestures to manipulate MRI images in OR
Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.
View ArticleACP recommends Stage 3 Meaningful Use focus on measuring improvements in...
Stage 3 Meaningful Use measures need to focus more on measuring improvements in patient health outcomes rather being than a large and growing collection of functional measures, the American College of...
View ArticleResearchers identify ways to improve quality of care measurement from...
Health care providers and hospitals are being offered up to $27 billion in federal financial incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs) in ways that demonstrably improve the quality of care....
View ArticleNew method halves wrongful cancer prognoses
The number of incorrect cancer prognoses can be halved with computerised image analysis. In three years time, the method can be used on patients with bowel cancer, ovarian cancer and prostate cancer.
View ArticleDigital processing system avoids 17.4 million drug errors in US in one year
Processing a prescription through an electronic ordering system can halve the likelihood of a drug error, and avert more than 17 million such incidents in US hospitals in one year alone, indicates...
View ArticleInternet searches can identify drug safety issues well ahead of public alerts
Internet searches on health symptoms can be used to identify drug side effects and could be used to develop a new kind of early warning system to boost drug safety, indicates a study published online...
View ArticleInformatics helps drive clinical and translational research
According to researchers, clinical and translational science has emerged as a national priority and investigators are increasingly becoming reliant on the use of computer science (CS), information...
View ArticleUsing internet search logs can help identify drug interactions
(HealthDay)—Search logs can be used to inexpensively mine for anonymized signals that may alert authorities to potential drug interactions and add new Web-scale pharmacovigilance capabilities,...
View ArticleDrugs can cut breast cancer risk for some, task force finds
(HealthDay)—The drugs tamoxifen and raloxifene (Evista) could reduce the risk of breast cancer among women who are at high risk of developing the disease, a new report confirms.
View ArticleUIC information specialists ease switch to new healthcare codes
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of...
View ArticleCan Twitter make you fitter?
On a recent Saturday, Pat Wagner knew she should have been getting ready for boxing class. The 60-year-old Carrollton resident spent the last five years cutting her weight in half, dropping 150 pounds...
View ArticleFive questions: The recognition of clinical informatics as medical sub-specialty
Clinical informatics, a field at the intersection of clinical medicine and information technology, has reached a new milestone: Physicians can now become board-certified in this medical sub-specialty.
View ArticleEHR use during patient visit may mean missed non-verbal cues
(HealthDay)—Patterns of eye gaze change with the use of electronic health records (EHRs), and this influences physician-patient interaction, according to research published in the March issue of the...
View ArticleBioinformatics and epigenetics - computer-aided cancer diagnosis
The relatively young research field of epigenetics is the talk of the town. Many scientists expect the research on biochemical modifications beyond the actual DNA strand to lead to huge progress in the...
View ArticlePediatricians' pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias,...
Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of...
View ArticlePreventing unnecessary deaths by moving meds safely
An interdisciplinary team with a broad range of expertise – in nursing, civil engineering, computer science, and biostatistics – is working together to confront a serious problem in modern health care:...
View ArticleClinical histories reveal surprising evidence of multiple, distinct 'autisms'
(Medical Xpress)—Simple patterns can emerge from even the most chaotic, complex data.
View ArticleRisk factors for prostate cancer
New research suggests that age, race and family history are the biggest risk factors for a man to develop prostate cancer, although high blood pressure, high cholesterol, vitamin D deficiency,...
View ArticleResearchers take new approach to determining risk of cancer reoccurring
What is the likelihood of a patient developing cancer again after having a tumour removed? This is the question that experts in medicine and medical informatics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)...
View ArticleRegenstrief project assembles health information from different electronic...
If you are rushed to a hospital in an emergency, is your complete medical record available to those caring for you? Will they know all medications you have been prescribed and whether you are taking...
View ArticleMany physicians choose insomnia meds based on habit
Clinical decision-making is a complex process, driven by multiple factors, including social and psychological dynamics, peer pressure and even exposure to drug advertising.
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