First Consulting Group's WebCast on Computerized Physician Order Entry
Join this webcast to learn how you can identify which needed building blocks must be 
in place for your hospital to get started on this important effort.

Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Healthcare & the Internet
Website contains links to many presentations including this keynote address: "Understanding ePatients, 
Dealing with Net-Savvy Consumers, and Looking Forward to Future Online Patient Services".

Nine Tech Trends for 2002 from Healthcare Informatics
The overall trend appears to be refinement and expansion of existing technologies rather than 
adoption of new ones. For example, we picked collaborative health records because EMRs 
are becoming more than one-sided data entry systems, and we chose pervasive computing 
because it's not just about wireless anymore. The trends may change from year to year, but 
the drivers remain the same--improved efficiency, value, and quality of care.

International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Health Information 
Systems (IMIA WG 10) 
in cooperation with the German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology
Working Conference on Health Information Systems (HIS) Heidelberg, Germany April 8-10, 2002

Three decades of research on computer applications in health care: 
medical informatics support at the agency for healthcare research and quality
This review provides a historical perspective on AHRQ investment in medical informatics research. 
It shows that grants provided by AHRQ resulted in achievements that include advancing automation 
in the clinical laboratory and radiology, assisting in technology development (computer languages, 
software, and hardware), evaluating the effectiveness of computer-based medical information systems, 
facilitating the evolution of computer-aided decision making, promoting computer-initiated quality assurance 
programs, backing the formation and application of comprehensive data banks, enhancing the management 
of specific conditions such as HIV infection, and supporting health data coding and standards initiatives.

Training synergies between medical informatics and health services research: 
successes and challenges
Health services research and medical informatics at Stanford have long shared a quantitative, analytic orientation, 
along with linked administration, curriculum, and clinical activities. Both the medical informatics and the health 
services research curricula draw on diverse course offerings throughout the university, and both the training and 
research overlap in such areas as outcomes research, large database analysis, and decision analysis/decision 
support.

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