Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.

CDW: Data loss top cybersecurity priority for IT pros

Data loss is the top cybersecurity threat (32 percent) among respondents to a survey from technology services provider CDW.

North Shore-LIJ notifies 100 patients of identity theft

North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, a 15-hospital system in New York, has announced there is an ongoing investigation with law enforcement authorities involving the identity theft of approximately 100 patients from North Shore University Hospital, a 804-bed tertiary care facility in Manhasset, N.Y.

ARRS announces winners of Fuji-sponsored travel grants

Nelly Tan, MD, and Sean P. Zivin, MD, have been selected by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) as the recipients of resident travel grants, sponsored by Fujifilm Medical Systems.

Study: Automating pediatric screening decreases ID burden

Researchers from Childrens Health Services Research at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, found automating the process of screening and alerting the physician to those who screened positive significantly decreased the burden of identifying relevant guidelines and screening of patient families in our clinics, according to an article published online April 16 in Pediatrics.

St. Jude takes earnings hit in Q1

St. Jude Medical has reported a 1 percent increase in sales, but an overall $21 million decrease in net earnings for the first quarter of 2012, which ended March 31.

...But How Will they Be Taught?

It seems you cant turn around without being asked to link one platform of your digital life to another platform. Whether its needing a Facebook account to join Spotify, allowing Twitter to post notifications through an iPhone or going through an Outlook website portal to access your professional email off-site, theres a lot of personal data being thrown around out there.

Fridsma: Use of EHRs among docs doubled in two years

The percentage of doctors using electronic records has doubled in the last two years, said Doug Fridsma, MD, director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), at the ICD-10 Summit sponsored by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

KLAS: Providers demand, but are slow to deploy EMR-integrated smart pumps

More than half of U.S. healthcare providers consider EMR integration a key factor in selecting smart-pump vendors and productsbut the number of providers who are actually integrating their smart pumps is in the single digits.

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