I’m currently attending the AMIA 2009 conference. I’ve really enjoyed it so far and it’s proven to be worth the 12 hour plane journey from New Zealand.
Just 3 hours after getting off the plane, I was presenting my slides as part of the Social Networking and Second Life workshop with Ed Hammond, Constance Johnson, Parvati [...]
Article by Dr Bill Cast from No More Clipboards, a personal health records company on why doctors hate EMRs:
“Today most EHRs and EMRs are invasive both to workflow and finances. While high cost is a significant barrier to physician adoption, workflow disruption remains the killer deterrent. Most proprietary softwares offer a limited palate of practice [...]
Forbes have an article about Epic Systems which is a nice overview of the company:
Big name companies like General Electric, Siemens, McKesson and Cerner are rushing to profit from the push to install electronic patient records.
But the hottest company in the electronic medical records industry is a secretive Wisconsin outfit called Epic Systems. It does [...]
It’s time to register for m-Health NZ 2009. We have a great line up of local and international speakers for this one-day conference on 6th November 2009 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
There’s a huge discount for students, so if you are researching mobile healthcare, this would be a great event for you to [...]
The whole team at the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland is live-blogging the HINZ 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.
You can see all the blog posts up on our new Health InnoVation Exchange website at: www.hive.org.nz
I’m also doing intermittent tweets using the #hinz09 hashtag.
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i am pursuing post graduate diploma in health informatics from CDAC PUNE,
could u please take a moment from ur busy schedule an tell me hw to move forward after doin this diploma and what a fresher must do to scale to new heigts.
we are learning database oracle, .net,java and HIS softwares.what really a healthcre info proff requires,pls guide,
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vijay
how are you sir, I need your guidance in making International Classification of Disease (ICD database) for medical data collection in Hospital setup. I plan to do ICD Database using open source (PHP & SQL) to collect mortality & morbidity data from discharge summary as my project for completing Masters in medical informatics.
here dr.deep plz suggest me good collage for health informatics rather than george brown collage plz as early as posible
nd ur doing it in AIMS cochin rt?plz repley me to make a gud choice
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Edy
I actually passed my MSc in Health Informatics. I was doing it with university of Winchester in London. I am however based in South Africa and working full time as the Chief Director for Strategy Management. My unit is reponsible for driving Policy , Research, planning, implementation and Monitoing as well as Evaulation in my organisation. I really enjoy my work.
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I actually passed my MSc in Health Informatics. I was doing it with university of Winchester in London. I am however based in South Africa and working full time as the Chief Director for Strategy Management. My unit is reponsible for driving Policy , Research, planning, implementation and Monitoing as well as Evaulation in my organisation. I really enjoy my work.
\Will chat more next time.
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