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Drugs
New ’smart’ pill tells patients when drugs dose due
Andrew Hough, The Telegraph
“The tiny edible microchip records precise details of medication programmes through a monitoring “receiver” patch attached to patients’ shoulder or arm.
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The chips that are good for your health
Steve Connor, The Independent
“An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient’s body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.
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Technological Healing
Sharon Begley, Technology Review
“Nanosensors patrolling your bloodstream for the first sign of an imminent stroke or heart attack, releasing anticlotting or anti-inflammatory drugs to stop it in its tracks. Cell phones that display your vital signs and take ultrasound images of your heart or abdomen.
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Mapping Partners Master Drug Dictionary to RxNorm Using an NLP-based Approach
Zhou L et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Objective
To develop an automated method based on natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate the creation and maintenance of a mapping between RxNorm and a local medication terminology for interoperability and meaningful use purposes.
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EHR Tracking for Drugs and Devices
Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“Cloud-based, integrated electronic health records (EHR or EMR) systems provide a new paradigm for the collection and use of data for long term research about drugs and devices after FDA approval — commonly referred to as Phase IV testing.
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Mining Data for Better Medicine
Neil Savage, Technology Review
“The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works and is safe. But what about when they are taken together?
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Electronic register could cut drug abuse
Sue Dunlevy, The Australian
“Software under trial that warns pharmacists not to dispense addictive medication to drug addicts if they have been given such medication just days before could bring addictions under control if introduced.
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Using real world data will help future healthcare: ABPI report
Katrina Megget, Pharma Times
“The use of real world data will be important in determining access to medicines in the future and the UK should embrace the opportunity of being a world leader in this area, a new report from the country’s pharma trade body says.
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Barriers persist in harmonizing EHR systems with substance use disorders
Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“In terms of coordination of care and health information exchange, the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD) are not on the same level as mainstream health care. However, the development of harmonized electronic health record (EHR) systems could help level SUD coordination, according to a report by the National Institute of Health.
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Kaiser genomics project completes first phase
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Kaiser Permanente and scientists at UCSF are celebrating the first major milestone of their genomics project – they have genotyped the DNA and analyzed the length of chromosome tips in more than 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members. Officials say that their electronic health record played a critical role in helping to achieve this in just 15 months.
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Prescription Data Mining: What it Means for Primary-Care Physicians
Aubrey Westgate, Physicians Practice
“Pharmaceutical companies cheered as the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned a Vermont law banning data mining for prescription drug marketing purposes. Many physicians, however, did not share similar celebratory feelings.
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Drug Prescription Data Mining Cleared By Supreme Court
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Supreme Court handed pharmaceutical companies and data mining firms a victory on Thursday when it struck down a Vermont law that banned the use of prescription information collected by pharmacies for marketing purposes.
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Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Drug Data Mining
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The U.S. Supreme Court on a 6-3 vote has struck down as unconstitutional a 2007 Vermont law that prohibited the collection and sale of physicians’ prescription data without consent.
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Post-market drug surveillance and EHRs
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The main way the FDA gets this kind of data is through the MedWatch Online Voluntary Reporting system, and from analysis of claims data (mostly from CMS – Medicare). Claims data will, typically, have a 3-month tail, and represent diagnosis codes used for billing (rather than on the clinical front-lines in EHRs).
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Now Available: Reporting Adverse Drug Events Via EHRs
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“PDR Network has launched a national adverse drug event network to enable physicians to report such events via their electronic health records system, or through a new Web site, RxEvent.org.
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A question of privacy in health records research
Chelsea Conaboy, Boston Globe
“Researchers from Harvard and other institutions announced last week that they had identified a potentially harmful interaction between two commonly prescribed drugs, Paxil and Pravachol.The drug interaction likely would have been ignored if the researchers hadn’t had access to hundreds of thousands of electronic health records, including those of Partners HealthCare patients.
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Data mining, EHRs help target dangerous drug combo
Healthcare IT News Staff
“Data mining and electronic health records helped researchers at some of the country’s most prestigious universities discover a dangerous side effect of a common drug combination.
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Unexpected drug interactions identified by Stanford data mining
Krista Conger, Scope
“Like many people in this country, I have sometimes taken two or more prescription drugs at one time to treat different conditions. What I didn’t realize, though, is that doctors lack a good way to predict how different drugs will interact.
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Electronic health records: implications for drug discovery
Yao L et al, Drug Discovery Today, 2011
Electronic health records (EHRs) have increased in popularity in many countries. Pushed by legal mandates, EHR systems have seen substantial progress recently, including increasing adoption of standards, improved medical vocabularies and enhancements in technical infrastructure for data sharing across healthcare providers. Although the progress is directly beneficial to patient care in a hospital or clinical setting, it can also aid drug discovery.
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