CDC Centers for Disease Control News Reader grabs the top stories from the CDC and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch.The news feeds covers emergency preparedness, emergency text messages, feature series, flu updates, travel notices, environmental health, and public health matters. It features landscape viewable mode and share stories...
With HIPAA audits now randomized, you must be prepared for them every day. And with state regulations requiring compliance-breach reporting, you must become your own auditor. This regulation requires compliance by all insurers and health care providers, including physician's offices, hospitals, health plans, employers, public health authorities, life insurers,...
The dictionary defines terms in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, as well as in all major medical and surgical specialties. Its coverage of psychology and psychiatry, public health medicine and dentistry is unusually comprehensive. This edition includes many new entries covering the latest developments in diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy, endocrinology,...
But you wannabe day-traders are too late. The stock of Sunnyvale-based Cepheid has already more than doubled in the past six months. Cepheid makes gene-based testing systems for whatever nasty germ is fearsome right now. Their technology uses digital analysis of biochemical componets of micro-organisms as each...
Via David Stephenson, I found this article about Toronto public health officials using Facebook to find a woman who had been possibly infected with rabies. The ironic part is that the City of Toronto bans the use of Facebook, so she had to get special permission to use it....
OutbreakID was developed for physicians and public health professionals who stand on the frontlines as the key agents for the early detection of outbreaks. OutbreakID covers potential outbreaks caused by exposures to toxins, chemicals, and infectious agents. It covers 201 diseases (156 infectious diseases), including nearly every disease listed in...
BMJ Health Intelligence is aimed at supporting decision-making around public health policies, programmes and commissioning. It takes public health data from across a multitude of sources, presenting information through a single, powerful, evidence-based web site. The incorporation of InstantAtlas to present eye-catching visuals makes patterns easy to see. BMJ deployed...
Harvard School of Public Health wanted to implement data collection survey of diverse population at a low cost. The challenge was to achieve success, the HSPH project required adequate validity and precision, limited cost and burden for both study personnel and participants and applicability in diverse populations, including a broad...
Real-time information communication presents a persistent challenge to the emergency response community. During a medical emergency, various first response disciplines including Emergency Medical Service EMS, Fire, and Police, and multiple health service facilities including hospitals, auxiliary care centers and public health departments using disparate information technology systems must coordinate their...
Officials at the Dept. of Health and Human Services are using the high-tech Secretary's Command Center in Washington, as well as a mobile command center based in Baton Rouge to respond to the health crises stemming from Hurricane Katrina, says an article in Information Week. ...
The Information Technology Committee ensures that Washington's public health professionals have access to information and technology when and where they need it - from the simple extension of e-mail systems onto handheld devices to installation of complex security functions so that data are protected. The goal is to employ appropriate...
Health care is an information-intensive industry that remains highly fragmented and inefficient. Hence, the uses of information technology IT - in delivering clinical care, performing administrative functions, and supporting the public health infrastructure - have the potential to yield both cost savings and improvements in the care itself. This paper...
This Sample Size Calculator is bundled with a free version of Pocket PC Creations Lite version! The calculator allows the user to calculate sample sizes for surveys/studies using simple random, lot quality assurance, 30 cluster, and systematic sampling. The user can select the type of sample, expected prevalence, desired precision,...
Communicable Disease Surveillance CDS is a single-user Windows application that allows public health doctors such as Consultants in Communicable Disease Control to record and track communicable disease cases. It allows full details of particular cases to be entered and then retrieved as required, in whatever manner or combination is needed.
Laziomatica, the IT and data transmission division of Italy's Lazio Regional Administration, wanted to replace 20 individual booking systems with a single integrated platform where its 5.3 million citizens could book their medical appointments. This all-purpose booking centre is called ReCUP. To make the project a reality, Laziomatica needed build...
Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research CHR, founded in 1964, is a non-profit research institute whose mission is to advance knowledge to improve health. The company wanted to ensure renewed funding for research from the Centers for Disease Control. SAS provides real-time access to remote data needed to perform studies...
When its vendor stopped supporting its service desk software, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health began a search to find a new solution. By choosing the BMC Magic Service Desk Suite a previous version of the BMC Service Desk Express Suite, the school has improved efficiency, lowered costs, increased customer...
The Puerto Rico Department of Health DoH needed a centralized way to track public health data, an improved process for retrieving healthcare statistics and reports, and to provide users with dynamic multidimensional analyses capabilities. With partner Nagnoi, Inc., the DoH planned a Data Warehouse for all of the island's healthcare...
Washington Hospital Center WHC, the largest teaching hospital in Washington, D.C., is at the vanguard of a major public health effort to raise influenza immunization rates among healthcare workers nationwide. The hospital is employing a multipronged approach to ensure a continuous increase in immunization rates among its employees, including the...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
