Thursday, January 12, 2012

Top Killers

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The CDC has released the top causes of death  list . 14 of the top 15 have not changed much in years but Homicide finally got pushed out by ...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Hospital CEO Thinks It's Perfectly OK To Show Patient's Records To Newspaper

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via consumerist.com Seems there is much more to this story than first meets the eye. THe HIPAA regulations unintended consequences incl...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Your Voice, Now Understood - Giving the Doctors back their Voice

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Find out more  here Posted via email from drnic's posterous
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

What is HealthIT Part 4

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What is HealthIT from the Discovery Channel Part 4 http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/patiented/patiented.html Posted via email ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

What is HealthIT Part 3

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What is HealthIT from the Discovery Channel Part 3 http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/patiented/patiented.html Posted via email ...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Social media to educate clinicians

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In an interesting response to a problem of getting the word out  >>>> Despite these compelling findings, an audit of UK hospital...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What is HealthIT - Part 2

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What is HealthIT from the Discovery Channel Part 2 http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/patiented/patiented.html Posted via email ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What is HealthIT - Part 1

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Soem interesting video presentation on HealthIT and Informatics from the Discovery Channel Part 1: Posted via email from drnic's po...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

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Get on Board the Social Media Train or Get Left Behind Like the Bank of America

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Bank Of America Just Had The Ultimate Social Media Fail Julia La Roche | ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Dragon Express - Available now in the App Store

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Dragon express was released this week at an amazing introductory price of $49.99. Great news for people wanting to try out Dragon on thei...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Is Siri the New Personal Health Assistant and Coder?

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Brian Dolan thinks so: http://mobihealthnews.com/13860/siri-iphones-new-personal-health-assistant/ Based on our own in-house testing here at...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile

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via businessinsider.com The "Blue Ocean" (non-smart phones ripe for putting smart phones in the hands of users) is "huge...

Improved systems for vehicle voice recognition coming

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via freep.com Cars that understand what you say....coming to a car near you. Part of the ongoing push and the new age of speech recogni...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Butterfly Effect of Healthcare Quality Measures

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via advisory.com In an interesting unanticipated effect the AHRQ has highlighted the potential for the government changes to encour...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Mobile Voice Recognition is Going to Rock Your World | Apple's Siri on the iPhone 4S is leading the way | Business News Daily

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via businessnewsdaily.com Voice is cool! Voice recognition and its most recent persona - the now well known Siri on the Apple 4S is a s...

Speaking in Context: Medical Language Models and Mobile Dictation

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via healthunbound.org Speech recognition is an increasingly common interface - we interact with speech systems on the phone, using ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

How EMRs can detract from a clear narrative, and facilitate spoliation and obfuscation of evidence; UPMC and the Sweet death that wasn't very sweet

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via hcrenewal.blogspot.com In a detailed and extensive post on the hcrenewal blog that covers the pending case from Pittsburgh and ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Apple Siri Advert - Speech Recognition in Action

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The Siri application in the latest Apple Advert showing off the power of your voice   Posted via email from drnic's posterous
Monday, October 24, 2011

Bad Science, Politics and the Need for Clinical Data

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Ben Goldacre, Saturday 31 October 2009, The Guardian. Every now and then it’s fun to dip into the world of politics and find out ...