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• in Business
  Computer Science vs. Information Studies vs. Information Systems (With a Little Informatics)
  What is the difference between the various computer and information technology programs at today's universities? Come find out.
  by tbrun1977 / on Nov 5, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “informatics”

 

• The Road to Big Data Passes Through Informatics

  
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  “I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health record (EHR) data, from the transition of the work of informatics from implementation to analytics to the problems that still prevent us from making optimal use of data, such as the difficulties of data entry. One of ...
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• 2015 DNP Mandate, What Does it Mean for Me?

  
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  I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the now famous 2015 date issue. For those of you who are not familiar with this issue there is a target date of 2015 by which all Nurse Practitioners will need to be educated at the Doctor of Nursing Practice level and not the Masters (of Nursing) level. Many rumors ...
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• @EricTopol says, “Show me the data!”

  
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  By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 5/6/2013 Many of us were excited when it was announced in February that Eric Topol would be the new editor-in-chief at Medscape.  I think big things are in store.  He recently wrote: Medicine is . . . poised for its biggest shakeup ever as it transforms ...
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• Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” released

  
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  After more than two years of work the Debian project has released the version 7.0, code-named "Wheezy" of its famous distribution. Inevitably, Debian GNU/Linux is the best known but there was also the release of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which is the Debian distribution based on FreeBSD kernel. Continue reading →
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• Rajasthan Govt Informatics Assistant Jobs 2013

  
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  Government of Rajasthan Last Date: 30/05/2013.  Government of Rajasthan, Department of IT and Communication (DoITC) www.doitc.rajasthan.gov.in , Jaipur (Rajasthan) as per Recruitment Advertisement No. AF2(1512)/DOITC/S/14/I/6214/2013 dated 25th April 2013 issued Recruitment ...
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• Faculty Notes: April 2013

  
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  An article titled “Executive Education,” written by David R. Klock, dean, appeared in the April 2013 issue of Brickell Magazine.School of AccountingManny Pravia (MST ’92), adjunct, presented a Federal tax update at the Florida Institute ...
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• Living with Chronic Pain and Depression

  
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  About 50 percent of people who have chronic pain also have depression, according to Robert D. Kerns , Ph.D, National Program Director for Pain Management for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Director of the Pain Research, Informatics, Medical comorbidities and Education (PRIME) Center at the VA ...
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• Zebra Hunting

  
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  Photo credit: Lesage Stefaan http://tinyurl.com/bpprqn6 Non-clinicians may not be familiar with “zebra” as a medical slang term. Zebra  is a  medical slang  term for a surprising  diagnosis . [1]  Although rare diseases are, in general, surprising when they are encountered, other diseases can be ...
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• Johns Hopkins: Thanks to EHRs, time with patients seems “squeezed out” of medical training, investigator says

  
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  Question:  Who would have thought it?  That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT hyper-enthusiasm ? Suggested answer:  anyone who truly understands the issues at the intersection of medicine, information science, information technology, and Social ...
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• Beware of diagnoses by medical apps, doctor warns

  
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  While medical apps for smartphones are often useful, and the range is rapidly growing, those that are diagnostic or prescriptive should be avoided, a German doctor has warned. ”There are simply too many possible sources of error,” said Urs-Vito Albrecht. ”A hearing test with a smartphone depends on the quality ...
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• Faculty member opens students’ eyes to opportunities in health IT.

  
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  Information about healthcare information turned out to greatly interest 79 students at Piper High School in Sunrise, Florida.As a presenter in ITWomen’s Role Model Speakers Program, Neera Bhansali, a faculty member in the College of ...
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• Biomedical and Health Informatics vs. Data Science, mHealth, etc. — New Disciplines or New Terminology?

  
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  “When I entered the field of informatics in the 1980s, a great deal of the research was driven by “artificial intelligence” (AI). Many people were trying to build “rule-based expert systems,” while those interested in knowledge representation were constructing “semantic networks.” We rarely hear these ...
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• What do 21st Century health care professional students need to learn about informatics?

  
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  I am increasingly involved in efforts to determine the content and competencies in informatics for 21st Century clinicians. Not only medical students at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) but also other healthcare professionals, such as nurses, physical/occupational therapists, nutritionists, and others at ...
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• Information Communication and Society

  
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  Our journal, Information Communication and Society (iCS), has had a step-jump in its readership and role in the field over the last several years. The editor, Brian Loader, and I were recalling our first meeting in the late 1990s, when Brian first proposed the journal. We are in the midst of the 16 th volume ...
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• Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW

  
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  The 16th IIW (Internet Identity Workshop)  is coming up, Tuesday to Thursday, 7-9 May, will be tat the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As usual, VRM will be a main topic, with lots of developers and other interested folk participating. Also as usual, we will have a VRM planning day  on the Monday ...
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• Healthcare IT News interviews medical pros on how Boston hospitals handled the bombings

  
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  Doctors and administrators talk about the role of medical informatics and health-care IT in disaster response
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• Google Glass for Nurses?

  
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  It’s been a few weeks since I was selected to be a Google Glass Explorer and ever since my brain has been humming with thoughts and ideas on how nurses could utilize the technology. How could nurses improve the care they deliver? How could HIPAA be a non-issue?
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• Thoughts on GBIC 2012 and a vision of the future of biodiversity informatics

  
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  This seems to be the season for big, arm-wavy documents about the future of biodiversity informatics (see A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities ). An equivalent document is being drafted based on the Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC 2012) conference. Writing these ...
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• Meaningful Use – Fraud or Frenzy

  
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  Robert Rowley downloaded the CMS data on Meaningful Use and did an interesting analysis in his article about EHR vendor strength. I was intrigued, so I downloaded the same data, created a pivot table or two, and did my own analysis.As the CEO of a growing EMR business, I was curious to see how we did. What I found ...
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