If HIS were standardized, I could anticipate a "Google" of the future coming up with fantastic ways of enhancing patient care by optimal presentation of patient data, i.e. scanning, filtering etc.. Already Google makes it very easy to look up quality medical information for patients on the internet.
Kevin On 2/15/06, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database > InformationWeek (02/13/06)No. 1076, P. 38; McGee, Marianne Kolbasuk > > Information technology is making strides in three critical areas of > medicine: The filtering and delivery of information to the patient's > bedside, allowing for personalized care; formatting existing data to obtain > a richer, more helpful picture of the patient's condition; and the use of > analytics to integrate data that yields new insights. IBM Healthcare and > Life Sciences' Brett Davis says the interim between the discovery of new > medical breakthroughs and their standard application--which can take as long > as 17 years--is decreasing thanks to the use of IT and other new tools for > research and collaboration. In addition to helping enable more customized > patient treatments, health-care IT can cut the time and cost of testing new > drugs and improve the development of safer, more targeted drugs via data > mining and analysis. Analytic, pattern-recognition, and decision-support > software can examine data from countless sources, and they could emerge as > some of the most critical health-care tools. But delivering more timely and > customized bedside care requires a national infrastructure for electronic > health data that facilitates the exchange of standardized medical records, > which President Bush flagged as a national goal to be realized by 2014. "The > key tipping point will be in getting the national health IT infrastructure > in place," notes Davis. Other challenges include the increasingly pressing > issues of security, privacy, and ethical data usage as more and more > health-care information becomes electronically accessible. Progress can also > be hindered by hesitancy among some researchers to share information. > Click Here to View Full Article > > == > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. > If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases." > --Guy L. Steele, Jr. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
