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eRisk
Working Group on Healthcare's Guidelines for Online Communications

The eRisk
Guidelines have been developed by the eRisk Working Group for
Healthcare, a consortium of professional liability carriers, medical
societies and state board representatives. These Guidelines are meant to
provide information to healthcare providers related to online
communication. They are reviewed and updated regularly.



Virtual
Connections: Internet Health Care

After completing
this course, the reader will be able to:

1. Understand
the increasingly important contribution of the Internet to information
and connection for staff and patients with cancer.

2. Evaluate the
limited evidence on medical misinformation, isolation, and the limits
of the Internet.

3. Learn the
best available oncology Internet resources.



Vanderbilt
improves operating room efficiency linking wireless Compaq iPAQ Pocket
PC to central server

Vanderbilt
University Medical Center in Tennessee has created more satisfying
patient experiences while improving quality and cost efficiencies in
surgical care with a new patient tracking and operating room management
system.  The system developed and implemented by the medical
centre's information technology staff uses iPAQ Pocket PCs linked
wirelessly to a central server which stores the schedule of surgeries
and patient information.



A
web-based system for individualised survival estimation in breast cancer

Clinicians want
prognostic tools that not only aid prognostic classification, but also
give quantitative probabilities of survival. This paper describes a way
of generating survival estimates that uses existing survival data and
generates survival curves online dynamically.  On the website http://finprog.primed.info a
selection of prognostic factors are available for case-match survival
estimation. The website also contains basic information about survival
statistics and the prognostic factors, including guidelines for
selecting variables and interpreting the results.



The
Challenge of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): Key Strategies
Towards a Successful Implementation

This symposium
is for organizations considering implementing a computerized physician
order entry (CPOE) system. As a leader in quality healthcare delivery
and innovation, Cedars-Sinai Health System is developing a web-based
computerized physician order entry (CPOE) program, named Patient Care
eXpert (PCX), as well as strategies to implement this enterprise-wide
health information system.



How
to evaluate and improve the quality and credibility of an outcomes
database: validation and feedback study on the UK Cardiac Surgery
Experience

Sampling of a
published national cardiac surgery database in England revealed it to be
both incomplete and unreliable in its ability to yield accurate, risk
adjusted outcomes data. An independent short process of monitoring,
validation, and feedback improved the quality of the database.  Such databases
probably require an ongoing process of monitoring in order to allow
data of adequate quality to be generated for the purpose of improving
healthcare outcomes.



NEW
TOOLS FOR REDUCING MEDICATION ERRORS

A
multidisciplinary panel of health care experts and leaders has
collaborated to develop three new educational tools for reducing
medication errors. Each tool addresses a discrete organizational
component: strategic planning, risk assessment, and information
technology. Used together, the tools provide hospitals with a process
for making fundamental, wide-ranging improvements to their medication
delivery systems.



Design
and Pilot Evaluation of an Internet Smoking Cessation Program

Relatively
little is known about how to use the Internet to promote health
behavioral change. This article describes a multiple-contact Internet
smoking cessation program with an 8-week web-based course, online tools
for self-monitoring of behaviors, and computer-tailored e-mail messages
timed to enrollees’ quit efforts. While site had potentially important
effects on smoking behaviors (34% of enrollees either quit smoking or
had a 50% reduction in cigarette use), we were not able hold the
interest of the majority of enrollees over the intervention period.



The
2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques
in Medicine and Biological Sciences  Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA  June 23-26, 2003

Recent advances
in computer technology have provided the tools and the environment to
study, analyze, and better understand complex systems. This
technological development has enabled researchers to collect and analyze
massive amounts of data to a scale previously not possible. The impact
of this technology is now being felt in the medical field and in the
biological sciences. In recent years, research in interdisciplinary
areas such as Bioinformatics and computer assisted medical
decision-making has dramatically intensified.



Portal
With a Pulse - Clarian Health Partners builds a new information system
for patients and professionals

Clarian has
chosen to first address the needs of consumers or patients with the
public-facing version of Clarian.org. Site visitors can login and create
a personal health profile, find a doctor, request an appointment,
automate a prescription refill, pay bills or email a patient. Doctors
can create profiles for consumers to view, which often lead to
referrals, a primary source of revenue for Clarian.

 

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