Latest American Medical Informatics Association Stories

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedCare Investment Funds (MedCare) today announced its selection of John Doulis, M.B.B.S. as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for its family of investment funds and portfolio companies. Doulis assumed his role on August 6, 2012. "MedCare is thrilled to add Dr. Doulis to our team. He brings a breadth of knowledge about information sciences and technology and its role in healthcare and biomedical science. His knowledge, experience...

CHICAGO, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel has declared October 30 to November 7, 2012 Informatics Week in Chicago. "I urge all Chicagoans to make an effort to participate in the activities highlighting the role of informatics in improving the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of health care in Chicago and the United States," said Emanuel in his Proclamation. The Mayor notes that, "informatics-based tools are important for improving both the quality and...

Article describing technique honored with distinguished paper award at medical informatics conference 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 to human health. The method, which combines three different "bipartite visual representations" of genetic information, is described in an article to appear in the...

To dictate or not to dictate? 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 quality of care than those who used structured documentation. The study is published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The researchers evaluated 18,569 visits by 7,000 patients with coronary...

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Fidelity, Inc., provider of a breakthrough natural language processing (NLP) platform for healthcare, announced today that it has brought together four industry luminaries to help guide strategic decisions and vision. Each member of Health Fidelity's Board of Advisors is a recognized leader in healthcare. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120306/NY65021LOGO ) The company's Board of Advisors includes: Ray Scott,...

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. A new study recruited patients into a human-computer interaction laboratory to determine the user experience for several popular functions of the Department of Veterans Affairs' My HealtheVet, the most widely disseminated personal health record system in the United States. The study appears in a supplement...

Errors associated with outpatient computerized prescribing systemsOutpatient 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).And not all systems are the same: some perform worse than others, the study shows.The rapid adoption of electronic prescribing systems has in part been fuelled by the belief that they would reduce the sorts of errors commonly...

The May issue of JAMIA, the top-ranked journal reporting on informatics in biomedical and health informatics, features new scientific research"”in print and online"”on healthcare's hottest HIT-related topics, written by prominent experts working in health and biomedicine. Editor-in chief Lucila Ocho-Machado bullets some of the rich content in the newly released, current issue:    * "A secure protocol for protecting the identity of providers when disclosing data for disease...

The current edition of JAMIA, today's top-ranked journal in biomedical and health informatics, features new scientific research"”in print and online"”on some of healthcare's most hotly discussed HIT-related topics, written by prominent experts working in health and biomedicine:    * "The case for randomized controlled trials to assess the impact of clinical information systems" Joseph L. Y. Liu of The University of Dundee and The University of Edinburgh, UK; and Jeremy...

Researchers make recommendations for improving sites, provide safety tips for users Nearly one-half of U.S. adults who use the Internet participate in social networks. While these increasingly include health-focused networks, not much is known about their quality and safety. In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program performed an in-depth evaluation of ten diabetes websites.Their audit...