Use of Computerized Clinical Support Systems in Medical Settings: United States, 2001-2003
This report presents information on the use of electronic clinical systems to support patient care in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient settings. Percentages of hospital emergency and outpatient departments with electronic patient medical records and automated drug dispensing systems are presented by selected hospital characteristics for 2001-02. Percentages of physicians using electronic patient billing records, electronic patient medical records, and computerized prescription order entry systems are presented by selected physician characteristics for 2003.

Decision Support for CPOE -- June 21 & 22, 2005
This conference brings together a group of nationally recognized speakers. They will tell you: • critical areas for decision support in your institution; • examples of how to select the most important areas for decision support; • methods to overcome barriers for implementing decision support

Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics inaugurated at Dubai Knowledge Village
In his inaugural address His Excellency, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan said that he was well aware of the power of information technology to accelerate and transform the development of the UAE healthcare system. 'I agree with assumptions of the conference: first, that Information Technology has a great potential to help control costs and improve medical care in the Middle East region; second, that the use of IT to improve health care delivery requires thoughtful monitoring and continued analysis.'

Give Your .NET App Brains and Brawn with the Intelligence of Neural Networks
attern recognition is an increasingly complex field. Every day technologies such as handwriting recognition software, spam filters, and search engines are required to identify ever more complicated patterns. The difficulty that arises when these tasks are attempted through traditional programming is that they involve a multitude of variables and, more often than not, the relationships between these variables cannot be explicitly defined.

Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality launches site an interactive 2005 Performance & Progress Report for hospitals, health plans, and physician groups
research activities to include: * Developing and implementing shared definitions of healthcare quality measures and standards; * Promoting the development, effectiveness and quality of health care for patients and communities in the State of Wisconsin through uniform measurement and by publicly reporting outcomes and sharing best practices.

OpenSource Group Adapting VA Software for Widespread Clinical Use
WorldVistA is a charitable organization: a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public-benefit corporation. WorldVistA was incorporated March 18, 2002 to measurably improve health worldwide by making medical software better and more accessible.

The Med-InfoChip™ plug and play software automatically displays your Medical Profile
The Med-InfoChip™ contains vital medical information provided by your doctors, which is current, relevant and secure. It enables you to have your medical profile wherever you travel.