Search Tag: health informatics
2021 08 Nov
The University of Johannesburg recently publicised a study published in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked examining how to improve machine learning (ML) algorithms for healthcare use. Algorithms can better identify healthy individuals since they are often trained on ‘unbalanced’ datasets containing more healthy than sick individuals. Since fewer data...Read more
2021 12 Apr
Find MIIT Canada On Social Media This year, MIIT 2021 will take place as a series of virtual meetings. Read more
2020 10 Aug
The U.S. Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) conducted an expert survey in March 2020 on the adoption of precision medicine programmes in health systems and application of genomic data management strategies. You might also like: Health Informatics – ‘Lost Tribe’ No More The survey (Center for Connected Medicine 2020)...Read more
2020 23 Jun
An unexpected but positive development the COVID-19 crisis has brought into healthcare, is the rise of technology and inevitably, the recognition of the previously obscure field of health informatics. An expert at the NHS Wales Informatics Service talked to HealthManagement.org about the long journey of the profession from ‘the lost tribe’ to the...Read more
2016 26 Apr
Welcome to the International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT 2016). The conference ICCMIT'16 organized by the Universal Society of Applied Research (USAR). The International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT 2016) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers,...Read more
2016 11 Feb
The challenges of health information management are capturing and storing medical and health data and to deploy appropriate systems supporting physicians and health personnel to analyze and manage that data for use in different decision-making tasks. Methods of electronic data capture has to serve to the objectives of further data use. It means that...Read more
2015 16 Jun
Renowned health informatics leader Michael Thick has appointed as chief medical officer (CMO) and chief clinical information officer (CCIO) of electronic patient record software pioneer IMS MAXIMS. Well known for his position as chief clinical officer on the National Programme for Information Technology, he has been instrumental across various successful...Read more
2015 31 Mar
Johns Hopkins has named Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH as one of its four newly appointed Bloomberg Distinguished Professors. Dr. Chute is the chief health research information officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he will focus on what the institution needs to manage its clinical data. The endowed professorships at Johns Hopkins are funded by a...Read more
2015 13 Jan
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, has announced that the InterSystems HealthShare® informatics platform has successfully completed the eHealth Exchange Product Testing Program. As an eHealth Exchange Validated product, HealthShare supports a common set of standards and specifications that enable a secure, trusted,...Read more
2014 15 Dec
Technologies focusing on the generation, presentation and application of clinical information in healthcare, referred to as health informatics or eHealth solutions, have experienced substantial growth over the past 40 years. Pioneering studies have been published focusing on technologies for producing and using written or spoken text, known as computational...Read more
2014 24 Nov
Charles Safran, MD is this year’s recipient of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Morris F. Collen Award for excellence in the field of medical informatics. The award recognises achievements in the use of information technology in healthcare. Specifically, it honours individuals who have advanced patient care and medical education through...Read more
2014 20 Oct
The primary focus of public health is prevention, with a key focus on responding to the health needs of individuals as well as populations. Meanwhile, public health informatics (PHI) is the field in which today’s information revolution meets the specific needs of public health. It is also defined as information, computer science, and technology systematically...Read more