News tagged with electronic system


New blood-thinner measures may cut medication errors

Blood thinners are the preferred treatment option to prevent heart attacks, blood clots and stroke, but they are not without risk, and not just because of their side effects. These high-risk drugs, known as anticoagulants, ...

Cardiology created May 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Failure to use linked health records may lead to biased disease estimates

Failure to use linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, warn researchers in a paper published in BMJ today.

Health created May 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Endothelium, heal thyself: A fresh look at this resilient, adaptable tissue

(Medical Xpress)—The endothelium, the cellular layer lining the body's blood vessels, is extremely resilient. Measuring just a few hundred nanometers in thickness, this super-tenuous structure routinely ...

Medical research created May 16, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

How cells regulate their own function by "accelerating and braking" is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published ...

Medical research created May 15, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mayo Clinic creates institution-wide electronic prolonged QT interval warning system

Using a one-of-a-kind computer-aided program, Mayo Clinic has developed and implemented a Mayo-wide electronic warning system to identify patients at risk of QT-related deaths from an abnormality in the heart's electrical ...

Cardiology created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny wireless injectable LED device shines light on mouse brain, generating reward

Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice, prodding neurons to release dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure.

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Is it a stroke or benign dizziness? A simple bedside test can tell

A bedside electronic device that measures eye movements can successfully determine whether the cause of severe, continuous, disabling dizziness is a stroke or something benign, according to results of a small study led by ...

Cardiology created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Primary care doctors can make the wrong call

(HealthDay)—In one case documented in a new study, an elderly patient was misdiagnosed with bronchitis but actually had full-blown pneumonia and ended up being admitted to the hospital.

Health created Feb 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Regenstrief study: Informatics tools underutilized in prevention of hospital-acquired infection

Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Synthetic circuit allows dialing gene expression up or down in human cells

Scientists who built a synthetic gene circuit that allowed for the precise tuning of a gene's expression in yeast have now refined this new research tool to work in human cells, according to research published online in Nature Co ...

Genetics created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics expert says

The federal government invested more than $25 billion in health information technology (IT) as a result of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act; yet, little is known about how IT applications improve patient safety ...

Health created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Empa spin-off bound for success with its electronic bedside care assistant

The first product to hit the Swiss market from Empa and ETH Zurich spin-off compliant concept is surpassing all expectations. The successful market launch of the electronic healthcare assistant also impressed ...

Health created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Decision support reduces antibiotic usage for bronchitis

(HealthDay)—Decision support strategies can help reduce the over-prescription of antibiotics for acute bronchitis in primary care settings, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Me ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many more doctors using electronic health records

(HealthDay)—More than two-thirds of family doctors now use electronic health records, and the percentage doing so doubled between 2005 and 2011, a new study finds.

Health created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More changes in health care needed to fulfill promise of health information technology

Despite wide investments nationally in electronic medical records and related tools, the cost-saving promise of health information technology has not been reached because the systems deployed are neither interconnected nor ...

Health created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0