Autism spectrum disorders
Clinical histories reveal surprising evidence of multiple, distinct 'autisms'
(Medical Xpress)—Simple patterns can emerge from even the most chaotic, complex data.
Dec 20, 2013
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News tagged with medical informatics
Health
Can 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 and adopting an entirely ...
Aug 20, 2013
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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.
May 15, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Drugs 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.
Apr 16, 2013
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Medications
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 to research published ...
Mar 28, 2013
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Informatics 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 science (IS), biomedical ...
Mar 15, 2013
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Medications
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 the ...
Mar 6, 2013
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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 ...
Feb 20, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
New 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.
Feb 6, 2013
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Researchers identify ways to improve quality of care measurement from electronic health records
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. The incentives are based, ...
Jan 15, 2013
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