• Morgan Stanley job cuts could hit UK IT staff

    Updated: 2013-01-11 13:03:26
    Morgan Stanley bank is to cut 1,600 jobs worldwide and UK IT workers could be some of the first in the firing line

  • Former Lloyds executive cries foul over IT whistle blowing

    Updated: 2013-01-11 12:51:16
    Former head of business continuity at Lloyds Banking Group tells tribunal he was forced out because he blew whistle on flawed IT systems

  • NATS says BI key to five-year investment plan

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:49:32
    The UK’s air traffic control business NATS will make business intelligence (BI) a priority investment over the next five years

  • BlackBerry services down for Vodafone users

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:45:48
    Both companies are keeping quiet about whose technology is at fault while BlackBerry users across Europe suffer the outage

  • Infosys surprises market with solid results

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:27:45
    IT services firm Infosys has surprised with better-than-expected results with a continued focus of consultancy and PaaS paying off

  • SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:17:23
    SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database

  • Microsoft opens Azure cloud to Linux apps and VMs

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:14:19
    Microsoft Open Technologies has released VM Depot to allow users to deploy and share Linux apps and virtual machines on the Azure cloud

  • Windows 8 fails to stem PC decline

    Updated: 2013-01-11 11:12:22
    Worldwide PC spending dropped 6.4% with Windows 8 adding confusion rather than driving adoption according to analyst IDC

  • Disable Java to protect from latest zero-day

    Updated: 2013-01-11 10:53:12
    Security researchers are warning of a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Java, including the latest Java 7 update 10

  • Download the latest CW Europe issues

    Updated: 2013-01-11 10:12:23
    Stay informed with the latest European IT news, tips and guides.

  • OCR unveils entry level qualification in computing

    Updated: 2013-01-11 09:45:06
    Education body OCR teams with Raspberry Pi and Computing at School to produce course material for KS3 and KS4 students

  • How to Keep Mobile Health Data Secure

    Updated: 2013-01-10 18:18:08
    “Kathryn Marchesini, a privacy adviser at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, outlines the three most important steps healthcare organizations should take to avoid breaches of information on mobile devices. The key steps, she says are to make extensive use of encryption; create, implement and document reasonable security and privacy policies; and train [...]

  • Health information exchange is the foundation of care coordination

    Updated: 2013-01-10 18:02:10
    “My wife Elaine was hospitalized for 6 days recently with an array of ailments related to her advancing cancer, so diagnosing and addressing her problems required a multidisciplinary approach. In addition to the nursing and support staffs, she was tended by an emergency physician, two hospitalists, three gastroenterologists, a pulmonologist, an infectious disease physician and [...]

  • Experts: mHealth poses privacy challenge

    Updated: 2013-01-10 17:32:00
    “Despite the potential of mobile healthcare, experts say they worry about the added risks of security breaches, privacy violations and other concerns that come with the increasing use of mobile technology. Lisa Gallagher, senior director for privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), says the biggest privacy concern with the use [...]

  • All Your Medical Data In The Cloud? Not So Fast, Says HHS Privacy Official

    Updated: 2013-01-10 17:13:22
    “When it comes to electronic health records, “the switch to cloud is inevitable.” That’s according to Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Obama administration, who spoke at a “Health Care, the Cloud, and Privacy” panel hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Patient Privacy [...]

  • Nokia doubles Lumia sales in fourth quarter

    Updated: 2013-01-10 15:33:21
    Smartphone manufacturer Nokia releases preliminary results, showing it has shipped 4.4 million Lumia handsets in the three-month period for Q4

  • Ruby on Rails flaws expose thousands of websites to attack

    Updated: 2013-01-10 15:15:29
    More than 240,000 websites that use Ruby on Rails web applications are at risk of being exploited by attackers

  • Fashion Retail Academy boosts Wi-Fi with Networks First

    Updated: 2013-01-10 14:10:59
    The Fashion Retail Academy (FRA) has worked with Networks First to bring improved Wi-Fi connectivity to its staff and students

  • Tesco rolls out Microsoft Office 365

    Updated: 2013-01-10 12:53:32
    Tesco has signed a deal to roll-out Microsoft Office 365 across its Europe and Asian operations

  • Software piracy international in scope, says Fast

    Updated: 2013-01-10 12:37:01
    The scale of software piracy is both international in scope and military in its execution, says the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast)

  • Government extends employer £1,500 apprenticeship grant for further 12 months

    Updated: 2013-01-10 05:06:21
    Government and National Apprenticeship Service extend AGE 16-24 grant for further 12 months

  • Patient ID Best Practices Coming Soon?

    Updated: 2013-01-09 19:01:17
    “Federal regulators are one step closer to issuing guidance on best practices for how healthcare organizations should authenticate the identities of patients when they want to view, download or transmit their health records online. The Health IT Policy Committee on Jan. 8 approved recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team regarding patient IDs in cyberspace. [...]

  • Download My Data: HL7 Releases Tool to Allow Patients to View Their Personal Health Information

    Updated: 2013-01-09 18:26:58
    “Health Level Seven International (HL7), the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, has announced the release of a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to Blue Button Transform Tool. The tool allows organizations to convert information already available in the existing HL7 CCD format into a Blue Button ASCII text [...]

  • Study: Physicians Practice Risky Habits With Electronic Health Records

    Updated: 2013-01-09 18:03:35
    “Some physicians practice potentially risky behavior when using electronic health records, according to a recent study published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Researchers examined 2,068 electronic patient progress reports created by 62 residents and 11 attending physicians working in the intensive care unit of a Cleveland hospital for the study. Plagiarism-detection software was used [...]

  • Electronic Health Records Can Improve Patient Care

    Updated: 2013-01-09 17:57:56
    “A New York City study finds electronic health records can improve patient care in small physician practices if technical help is provided, researchers say. Lead author Dr. Andrew M. Ryan of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and colleagues at the Primary Care Information Project of the New York City Health Department used an [...]

  • Electronic health records with technical assistance can improve patient care in New York City

    Updated: 2013-01-08 17:32:46
    “The relationship between a physician practice’s adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and quality improvements in patient care remains unclear. However, a new study published in the January issue of Health Affairs by Weill Cornell Medical College and the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) of the New York City Health Department shows evidence that EHR [...]

  • Introduction to Data Mining

    Updated: 2013-01-06 20:50:21
    Dear Data Mining Research readers, I wish you all an excellent year 2013! How to better start this new year than with an introduction to data mining (for non-experts)? Enjoy! Data alone is worth almost nothing. While data is increasing exponentially, people in some fields are “starving” for knowledge. In spite of this, the gap between [...]

  • Researchers link DNA with EHRs, leverage data for genomic research

    Updated: 2013-01-04 18:36:57
    “While the data stored in electronic health records is primarily clinical in nature, intended to help physicians diagnose patients and record treatments, researchers interested in examining rare diseases and other genetic health factors are increasingly turning to those EHRs as a source of data. Instead of relying on questionnaires or interviews by staff to [...]

  • Chapter 13: Mining Electronic Health Records in the Genomics Era

    Updated: 2013-01-04 18:35:05
    The combination of improved genomic analysis methods, decreasing genotyping costs, and increasing computing resources has led to an explosion of clinical genomic knowledge in the last decade. Similarly, healthcare systems are increasingly adopting robust electronic health record (EHR) systems that not only can improve health care, but also contain a vast repository of disease and [...]

  • Understanding the factors that influence the adoption and meaningful use of social media by physicians to share medical information

    Updated: 2013-01-02 19:26:12
    BACKGROUND Within the medical community there is persistent debate as to whether the information available through social media is trustworthy and valid, and whether physicians are ready to adopt these technologies and ultimately embrace them as a format for professional development and lifelong learning. OBJECTIVE To identify how physicians are using social media to share and exchange medical [...]

  • Docs Often Use Social Media on the Job: Survey

    Updated: 2013-01-02 18:49:54
    “About one in four U.S. doctors uses social media daily to scan or explore medical information, according to a new study. The survey of nearly 500 cancer specialists (oncologists) and primary-care doctors also found that 14 percent contribute new information via social media each day, said the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in [...]

  • A semantic-web oriented representation of the clinical element model for secondary use of electronic health records data

    Updated: 2012-12-29 15:53:20
    The clinical element model (CEM) is an information model designed for representing clinical information in electronic health records (EHR) systems across organizations. The current representation of CEMs does not support formal semantic definitions and therefore it is not possible to perform reasoning and consistency checking on derived models. This paper introduces our efforts to represent [...]

  • The implications of e-health system delivery strategies for integrated healthcare: Lessons from England

    Updated: 2012-12-29 14:43:38
    Purpose This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care. Methods Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was [...]

  • Guest Post: Mark Zielinski

    Updated: 2012-12-27 20:44:34
    Today, I have the pleasure to welcome Mark Zielinski, co-founder and former director at Winning Research in Toronto. He writes about analyzing social network traffic to better understand patterns and derive knowledge from them. Thanks for your contribution Mark. Since late 2011, the market research industry and market research technology in general has been very [...]

  • Data Mining Book Review: Future Ready

    Updated: 2012-12-16 19:25:01
    If you are working on forecasting, you may be interested by the book from Steve Morlidge and Steve Player: Future Ready – How to master business forecasting. Whereas Dance with Chance was more about the limitations of forecasting, the present book is about the way to apply forecasting to existing businesses. Let’s [...]

  • Google's Year in Local Search

    Updated: 2012-12-14 23:53:49
    At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for {restaurants in seattle} looked like this: Note: the size of the map, the presence and colouration of the main column ad block and the use of the restaurant's web page...

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