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The Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology (FMA) is now OPEN SOURCE
The Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology (FMA) is an evolving computer-based knowledge source for bioinformatics; it is concerned with the representation of classes and relationships necessary for the symbolic modeling of the structure of the human body in a form that is understandable to humans and is also navigable, parseable and interpretable by machine-based systems. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy.

Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study
Doctors and patients are increasing proficient with the internet and frequently use Google to search for medical information. Computers connected to the internet are now ubiquitous in outpatient clinics and hospital wards. Useful information on even the rarest medical syndromes can now be found and digested within a matter of minutes. This study suggests that in difficult diagnostic cases, it is often useful to “google for a diagnosis.

AHRQ's Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) for PDAs
The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. The ePSNo warnings or errors were found. To learn more about HTML Tidy see http://tidy.sourceforge.net Please send bug reports to html-tidy@w3.org HTML and CSS specifications are available from http://www.w3.org/ Lobby your company to join W3C, see http://www.w3.org/Consortium S is available both as a PDA application and a web-based tool. It is based on current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and can be searched by specific patient characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.

AMIA's Medical Informatics 2006 Year in Review
This site contains:

  • Selected high impact publications in Clinical Informatics, November 2005 - October 2006
  • Selected high impact publications in Bioinformatics, November 2005 - October 2006
  • Top Five Events since the last AMIA Symposium
  • Search methodology used to identify literature
  • PowerPoint slides from Year In Review Session
  • DOD working on e-health redundancy
    The Clinical Data Repository, which holds the medical records of 8.6 million active-duty and retired service members and their families, failed briefly last week. An official, who declined to be identified, described the 20-minute failure as a burp and said it is not the first time it has happened in the past several years as the Military Health System (MHS) transfers records to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) database. The clinical repository resides on a separate storage-area network, and a mirror copy exists at the data center that houses health records. The data center generates multiple copies of the repository each day, and those copies are retained on-site and off-site, according to a DISA statement. The DISA installed another mirror of the Clinical Data Repository at a geographically remote data center and is testing it, the official said. In addition, DISA and MHS are setting up cache servers at MHS facilities, which will let clinicians gain access to current records locally in case the repository goes down at the data center.





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