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Semantic Tech in Health Information Retrieval

Angela Guess — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:01:28 +0000

Philipp Gratzel Von Gratz of Medical Xpress writes, “Imagine a hospital where patient data from numerous sources is made accessible to ward physicians with the help of hyperlinks and intelligent indexing. Imagine a healthcare system that hands its patients – not an envelope or a CD-ROM – but an integrated dataset that allows them to truly understand their illness, and even use the Internet to obtain additional information. Imagine a radiologist who uses semantic technologies to navigate smoothly through the myriad imaging data. Welcome to the future of semantic technologies in health information retrieval.” continued…

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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache cTAKES(TM) as a Top-Level Project

Angela Guess — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:00:20 +0000

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache cTAKES has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles. continued…

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BehaviorMatrix Conducts Largest Oncology Blog Study in History

Angela Guess — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:30:51 +0000

With over 30 million worldwide blog sites analyzed, the study provides fascinating insights into emotions by stage of cancer and emotions surrounding key drugs prescribed in head and neck, ovarian, breast, lung, colorectal, hepatocellular and renal cancers. It also identifies key opinion leaders(KOP’s) and influencers across the blogosphere.

In addition, the study has classified every Oncology drug mentioned across the blogosphere for its intensity of mention by category of disease. Key metrics such as emotions over time for competitive oncology drugs, emotions around treatment type (medication, radiation, surgery, etc.) as well as cohorts of physicians, patients, nurses and caregivers were analyzed. BehaviorMatrix presented findings around one of the disease categories studied, breast cancer, at the ePharma Summit. continued…

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Allegient and IUPUI Develop Big Data Search Tool

Angela Guess — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:30:23 +0000

Allegient is pleased to announce a key milestone in the development of its Big Data analytics practice. Developers from Allegient and IUPUI’s School of Informatics have created SURAAK (Semantic Understanding Research in the Automatic Acquisition of Knowledge). SURAAK was developed through an $844k grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging to help caregivers of geriatric patients easily find health care solutions, increase the speed of doing research, and increase confidence in their analysis. continued…

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Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health Select InterSystems HealthShare as Strategic Informatics Platform

Angela Guess — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:45:00 +0000

InterSystems Corporation, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Massachusetts-based Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have selected InterSystems HealthShare® as their strategic informatics platform for an innovative, new regional health information exchange (HIE). Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have spearheaded the formation of the Pioneer Valley Health Information Exchange, or PVIX, which will rely on HealthShare to provide a “one patient, one record” view across hospitals, medical practices, health insurance payers, laboratories, and other healthcare institutions participating in Baycare’s Pioneer Valley Accountable Care organization (PVAC) and across the western Massachusetts region. PVIX will also serve as an onramp for the region to the Massachusetts statewide health information exchange. continued…

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HealthONE Hospitals Launches BodyMaps

Angela Guess — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:00:57 +0000

Healthline Networks and Visual Health Solutions and Denver’s leading healthcare system, HealthONE, today announced a partnership to provide patients and physicians with Healthline’s BodyMaps application via the HealthONE website, www.HealthONEcares.com.

BodyMaps demystifies complex aspects of health by combining Healthline’s unique semantic taxonomy and Visible Health Solution’s high-quality anatomical content into a unique interactive 3D experience for users to visually explore the human body, from its largest organ to its smallest bone. BodyMaps also maps thousands of anatomical and clinical terms to simple patient-friendly synonyms, making it understandable to anyone. continued…

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CollabRX Creates Editorial Board for Prostate Cancer

Angela Guess — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:00:45 +0000

Following the news earlier this month that CollabRX has released a semantic clinical support tool for oncologists, CollabRX has formed a new editorial board for prostate cancer. According to the article, “CollabRx, Inc. [yesterday] announced the formation of an editorial board for prostate cancer to be led by E. David Crawford, M.D. who will serve as Chief Editor. Dr. Crawford is the distinguished Professor of Surgery, Urology, and Radiation Oncology, and head of the Section of Urologic Oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is an active clinician, researcher, and teacher who has been recognized as one of the Best Doctors in America, one of the Best Cancer Doctors, and one of the Top 20 Urologists in the country by Men’s Health Magazine. Dr. Crawford will lead a distinguished group of physicians from leading institutions such as Yale University, University of Michigan, Cleveland Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and others.” continued…

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VA Testing How Well Computers Predict Medical Problems

Angela Guess — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:30:35 +0000

Bob Brewin of NextGov.com reports, “The Veterans Health Administration plans to test how advanced clinical reasoning and prediction systems can use massive amounts of archived patient data to help improve care, efficiency and health outcomes. The Veterans Affairs Department’s electronic health record system — the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA — stores data on 30 million veterans, including 3.2 billion clinical orders, 1.8 billion medication prescriptions and 2.3 billion vital sign measurements. This structured data is accompanied by 2 billion clinical text notes, with a growth rate of one hundred thousand additional notes per day.” continued…

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European STATegra Project Officially Begins

Angela Guess — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:00:26 +0000

A recent article out of Biomax Informatics reports, “The European STATegra Project, tasked with developing solutions to connect data production and data analysis, enables biologists to gain enhanced insight and understanding of their experiments. The European Project ‘STATegra’ has officially commenced at the Prince Felipe Research Centre (CIPF) (Valencia, Spain), with Biomax Informatics as the lead provider partner for semantic integration and knowledge development technology, a key element of the project goals. The project will focus on developing complex statistical methods wrapped into usable tools to provide integrative analysis of data from entire biological molecular systems.” continued…

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Interoperability in Health Care: What’s the Hold Up?

Angela Guess — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Kathleen Roney of Becker’s Hospital Review recently opined, “In order for the healthcare industry to move toward preventive care and population health management, clinical information needs to flow freely across networks and between hospitals and physicians. For this reason, healthcare organizations need interoperability — efficient yet secure means for IT systems and software applications to communicate and exchange patient data. While CMS focused the latest stage of its meaningful use program on measures and objectives to encourage interoperability, the effect of that will not be seen until later in 2013 and early 2014 when providers begin to incorporate those measures and objectives into their clinical work. ” continued…

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Proposed Health/Medical Schema Published

Angela Guess — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:06:25 +0000

Schema.org is often talked about in terms of its SEO benefit, but a recent announcement by Aaron Brown of Google shows a focus on health and medical content on the web. Brown has announced a proposed health/medical schema that is currently open to the public for feedback. According to the introduction, “This page describes a schema.org-based schema that webmasters and content publishers can use to mark up health and medical content on the web. Like all schema.org schemas, the health and medical schema is intended to make it easier for people to find the right web pages by exposing structured information contained in web pages to search engines, and may also enable other applications that make use of the structure.” continued…

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3M Opens Access to Healthcare Data Dictionary

Angela Guess — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:51 +0000

3M has opened up the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under an agreement with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. According to the article, “The 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient data between care providers at U.S. military treatment facilities located around the world and VA Medical Centers. Access to actionable clinical information whenever and wherever care is delivered will enable safer, better coordinated, and higher quality care for the country’s 32 million veterans, active service members, and their families.” continued…

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How Healthline is Using Semantic Technology to Promote Health

Angela Guess — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:59 +0000

West Shell, CEO of Healthline is turning to the semantic web to compete with internet health giants like WebMD. Wade Roush reports, “Shell says 170 million Americans turn to the Internet every month for help managing their health. And Healthline, the 130-employee company he’s been leading since 2005, captures a huge portion of them: roughly 100 million per month, spread across the many Web properties, such as Yahoo Health, AARP.com, and DoctorOz.com, that use the company’s search tools and medical content. It’s one of the three largest U.S. providers of consumer health information on the Web, the others being WebMD and Everyday Health.” continued…

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BayScribe & Perfect Search Partner to Bring Semantics to Healthcare

Angela Guess — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:45 +0000

BayScribe and Perfect Search Corporation have partnered to “bring NLP powered semantic search to healthcare.” According to the article, “With this partnership BayScribe will utilize Perfect Search’s unique indexing and search technology to enhance their Semantic Interoperability platform. Able to index and search structured EMR data, unstructured free text, NLP processed records, DICOM radiology data, lab tests, and more in real time, clients will be provided with unparalleled access to critical data.” continued…

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Healthways Partners with Roundarch to Explore Emerging Technologies

Angela Guess — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:00:04 +0000

Healthways has announced “the introduction of significant new online and mobile capabilities for the Company’s industry-leading Embrace(TM) 5.0 platform. The result of a year-long development effort with Roundarch, Well-Being Connect(TM) and wellbeingGo(TM) will begin being rolled out for existing Embrace users later this month. As a result of the successful development effort, the Company also announced it has entered into a five-year, $50 million strategic agreement with Roundarch. Under the terms of the agreement, the partnership will be responsible for collaborative design, and Roundarch will be responsible for the development, testing, deployment, maintenance and operations for both current and future versions of web, mobile and social applications for Embrace.” continued…

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