Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“A new data network should be created to integrate the emerging research on the molecular make up of diseases with the clinical data of patients in electronic health records, the National Research Council determines in a recently published report.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Tapping into the wealth of data stored in electronic health records (EHRs) could advance medical research and improve clinical outcomes for patients with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). With that possibility in mind, the NRC is calling for a new data network, one that integrates the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data from patients’ digitized medical records.
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EurekAlert!
“A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, says a new report from the National Research Council. The “new taxonomy” that emerges would define diseases by their underlying molecular causes and other factors in addition to their traditional physical signs and symptoms.
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Sinha SR, Barry M. N Engl J Med, 365(9)
In recent years, interest in both global health and health care innovation has grown tremendously, and there has been increasing recognition of the importance of medical devices and other nonpharmaceutical health-related technologies to all aspects of health care. In 2007, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued the first global directive on medical devices, recognizing that, like medicines, many health technologies are indispensible.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Proteus Biomedical announced today that it has received a patent for its ingestible biomedical sensor — what the company has referred to as “intelligent medicine” in the past and what many have referred to as a “chip in a pill.”
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Maojo V et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(3)
Objectives:
Biomedical ontologies have been very successful in structuring knowledge for many different applications, receiving widespread praise for their utility and potential. Yet, the role of computational ontologies in scientific research, as opposed to knowledge management applications, has not been extensively discussed. We aim to stimulate further discussion on the advantages and challenges presented by biomedical ontologies from a scientific perspective.
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Smith ZJ et al, PloS One, 6(3)
In this paper we report the development of two attachments to a commercial cell phone that transform the phone’s integrated lens and image sensor into a 350x microscope and visible-light spectrometer. The microscope is capable of transmission and polarized microscopy modes and is shown to have 1.5 micron resolution and a usable field-of-view of 150 x 50 with no image processing, and approximately 350 x 350 when post-processing is applied. The spectrometer has a 300 nm bandwidth with a limiting spectral resolution of close to 5 nm. We show applications of the devices to medically relevant problems.
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Nayantara Som, BioSpectrum Asia
“A visit to the community centers in the Doornakkers neighborhood in the province of Eindhoven, and one would notice the extent to which e-health services have become a part of the daily lives of the Dutch population. Fifteen-nine-year-old Ayse Artúrk met with an accident two years ago, which injured her leg. The injury would make it difficult for her to go for regular check-ups. e-health has made her life easy.
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Niederlag W et al, Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschut, 53(8)
The individualization of medicine and healthcare appears to be following a general societal trend. The terms “personalized medicine” and “personal health” are used to describe this process. Here it must be emphasized that personalized medicine is not limited to pharmacogenomics, but that the spectrum of personalized medicine is much broader.
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Rohan Aurora
“I recently came across a very interesting abstract in a latest issue of the journal Lab on a Chip. Furthermore, I found its full research manuscript at the free digital database PubMed Central. It encompassed details of a new biomedical device and techniques that would allow effective detection of biomarkers in a blood sample in a matter of minutes rather than days or weeks.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Let me kindly remind you that the position paper submission deadline for BIOSTEC 2011 will end in a week time, more exactly on September 27, which is a hard deadline. We would welcome a paper submission from you, describing relevant and innovative research work.
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Proper understanding of textual data requires the exploitation and integration of unstructured and heterogeneous clinical sources, healthcare records or scientific literature, which are fundamental aspects in clinical and translational research. The determination of semantic similarity between word pairs is an important component of text understanding that enables the processing, classification and structuring of textual resources. In the past, several approaches for assessing word similarity by exploiting different knowledge sources (ontologies, thesauri, domain corpora, etc.) have been proposed. Some of these measures have been adapted to the biomedical field by incorporating domain information extracted from clinical data or from medical ontologies (such as MeSH or SNOMED CT).
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Singh HR, et al. Medical and Care Compunetics 6. 2010
The accuracy in the online measurement of ECG parameters has a decisive role in the better diagnosis and effective treatment of the diseases. The present paper describes a Lab-VIEW based programming using Pan Tompkins method to extract out QRS complex whereas QT interval measurements were carried out using Mat-lab based math-script module.
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Singh, H.R. et al, ICMCC
To be presented at ICMCC 2010 Event.
The accuracy in the online measurement of ECG parameters has a decisive role in the better diagnosis and effective treatment of the diseases. The present paper describes a Lab-VIEW based programming using Pan Tompkins method to extract out QRS complex whereas QT interval measurements were carried out using Mat-lab based math-script module.
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Juan del Llano, Diario Médico
“Parafraseando el dicho de que la paciencia es la madre de la ciencia, el autor señala a la necesidad como progenitora de la innovación.
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Jeff Blander, SciDev Net
“Globally, just ten per cent of medical research and discovery budgets target the 80 per cent of people who live on less than US$10 a day.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The Israeli Institute of Technology has created a miniature crawling robot small enough to crawl through human veins.
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HealthTech Wire
“What is the best way to operate on a child with a particular congenital heart disease? How are certain brain tumours that occur at a very early age best dealt with?
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Joan Hicks, Modern Healthcare
“Highlighting devices: Ala. health system develops biomedical devices integration for EMRs.
The University of Alabama Hospital, the cornerstone of the UAB Health System, is a 908-bed, tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility.
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MSN News
“Thrissur: ISRO’s telemedicine Project will go a long way in reaching advanced medical facilities in the country to rural and remote areas, its Chairman Dr G Madhavan Nair said.
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