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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Good morning sir, I am Vijaykumar presently pursuing Masters in Medical Informatics @ Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
Before this I served six years as Assistant Medical Records Officer @ 350 bedded hospital, Mysore. Now I am in the end of 1st year and my second year starts with 3 full time project reports for which I have few ideas about collecting accurate mortality & morbidity medical data through ICD in hospital set up, but I dont know how to start with that. I need your assistance to getting start sir.
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vijaykumar.A
Regards
Vikas
I will be finishing my course in short time and wanted to know what is the current situation in India in this field.
Since you have been in this field for very long in India, I would like to know your views about job opportunities in India,in field of Health Informatics.
My email id is drvikasgaur@gmail.com
Regards
Dr Vikas
All the like minded people should unite and synergise new concepts to improve the Health informatics services.
Hope this kind of platforms would certainly improve the resources that is needed today for Health Care Systems.