News tagged with journal of the american medical informatics association


UIC 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 Diseases—ICD-9—to the new ICD-10.

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

Using 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, according ...

Medications created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet 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 in the Journal of th ...

Medications created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital 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 research published online ...

Other created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgeons 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.

Surgery created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study 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 qualitative study of ...

Other created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers 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 that could be crucial ...

Genetics created Jun 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Doctors who dictate their notes have worse quality of care than those who use other documentation methods: study

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 appeared to have worse ...

Health created May 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Text 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 in the Journal of th ...

Health created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Making personal health records more usable

Although personal health records are now securely accessible online to a large and growing number of individuals, little research has been conducted on opinions about their ease of use.

Health created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

E-health records should play bigger role in patient safety initiatives, researchers advocate

Patient safety researchers are calling for the expanded use of electronic health records (EHRs) to address the disquieting number of medical errors in the healthcare system that can lead to readmissions and even death. Their ...

Other created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out common mistakes

Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Health created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0