News tagged with information systems


Patients should have right to control genomic health information

Doctors should not have the right or responsibility to force-feed their patients with genomic information about their future health risks, according to bioethicists writing on May 9 in Trends in Biotechnology, a Cell Press ...

Genetics created May 09, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Targeting CPR education in high-risk neighborhoods could save more lives

Targeting CPR education in high-risk neighborhoods could increase the number of bystanders giving CPR and decrease deaths from cardiac arrest, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in ...

Cardiology created Feb 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Traffic light system for activity could redefine how we exercise

(Medical Xpress)—The traffic light system used as a guide to health information in food could be used in a similar way to help people become more active.

Health created Feb 21, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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

Study: Facebook makes users envious, dissatisfied

In a joint research study conducted by the Department of Information Systems of the TU Darmstadt (Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann) and the Institute of Information Systems of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Dr. Hanna Krasnova), ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | 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

Do brain cells need to be connected to have meaning?

(Medical Xpress)—The classic theory of the brain is one of connections, in which the brain consists of a network of neurons that interact with each other to allow us to think, see, interpret, and understand ...

Neuroscience created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

In schizophrenia patients, auditory cues sound bigger problems

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System have found that deficiencies in the neural processing of simple auditory tones can evolve into ...

Neuroscience created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Race, education, income impact trust in health information

Race, education, and income impact health information-seeking, confidence in obtaining health information and trust in health information sources.

Health created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with online access to clinicians, medical records have increased use of clinical services

Patients with online access to their medical records and secure e-mail communication with clinicians had increased use of clinical services, including office visits and telephone encounters, compared to patients who did not ...

Health created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey: 69 percent of US primary care doctors now have electronic medical records

Two-thirds (69%) of U.S. primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records (EMRs) in 2012, up from less than half (46%) in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy ...

Health created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early clinical observations in the fungal meningitis outbreak

A new article being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine describes the diagnosis and treatment protocol established in a Roanoke, Va. hospital to care for dozens of patients presenting with suspected fungal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Burst of fetal neural activity necessary for vision

(Medical Xpress)—A sudden and mysterious burst of activity originating in the retina of a developing fetus spurs brain connections that are essential to development of finely-tuned sight, Yale researchers ...

Neuroscience created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How immune cells defend themselves against HIV

A team of scientists led by virologists Prof. Oliver T. Fackler and Prof. Oliver T. Keppler from Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a mechanism used by the human immune system to protect itself from HIV viruses. ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0