By William Hersh – NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins accepted a report from his Advisory Committee that set forth a strategic vision that affirmed the NLM as a strategic leader in data science, biomedical informatics, and as a library resource.
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By Matt Patterson MD – While health systems are facing the need to provide better outcomes at a lower cost, there is only so much that can be achieved through consolidation, incentives, and standardization. Most recognize that in order to continue moving the needle on cost, hospitals and health systems will require fundamental redesign in the way care is provided.
By Sarianne Gruber – A Conversation with Lisa Emrich, iConquerMS and Sarianne Gruber about patients like herself with MS to join together, to bring their data together and to fight their disease. Lisa possesses an aura of optimism and heart. Probably the two most key qualities needed for bringing these patients together.
By Dr. Anthony Oliva – Being able to “speak doctor” ensures that physicians are accurately capturing the level they provide to patients, and enables healthcare organizations to correctly identify their patient populations and predict their future healthcare needs.
By Paula Braun – It’s a familiar narrative. A crime drama opens with a dead body. Police are on the scene taking testimony from eyewitnesses, if there are any. A detective arrives and unravels the clues. How did this person die? More often than not, the answers aren’t obvious. That’s what makes it interesting.
By Sarianne Gruber – Paul Bradley, Ph.D. is the Chief Data Scientist at ZirMed, Inc. He talks about data analysis technology, data mining and strategic business decisions.
Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. Here are selected healthcare technology, innovations, and storage Infographics.
By William Hersh – Many of us in the informatics field, myself included, sometimes believe that the value proposition of informatics is so intuitively obvious that we do not need to explain it to the rest of the world. API-based interoperability? Secondary use of clinical data? Standardized terminology? Their value is so certain that we need not explain it. Not!
By Sarianne Gruber – A Conversation on Accreditation with Lee Barrett, Executive Director of EHNAC highlighting some of the merits of Practice Management system accreditation.