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A Navigation System for Health Care?

11/30/2010 1:10:00 PM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

Ok, if the truth be known, I left the AMIA Annual Symposium here is Washington, DC late one night—actually after helping with a panel on Consumer Health Informatics. I offered to drive one of the speakers home, and while chatting away AND backing out of a very tight parking spot in an underground parking garage, I managed to do what I had been SO careful not to do before. I could list out my justi... read more

Nov

On Harmonization

11/24/2010 8:01:04 AM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

On several occasions, I have written how the framework of the HITECH Act is driving the harmonization of standards. With over 200 different health care terminologies to choose from, we have to agree on a general set in order to make interoperability a reality. Interoperability is simply—having health data follow the patient. It sounds so much easier than it is. For that to occur, there has to be... read more

Nov

After FNCE

11/22/2010 2:47:00 PM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

As Marty last blogged, this year’s landmark “in-person” session for the AMIA/ADA “10x10” Course was a wonderful addition to the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo in Boston, Massachusetts this year. Perhaps one of the most exciting points for me was the fact that ADA now has an understanding of more members who are working in the field of informatics and who might want to be involved with col... read more

Nov

FNCE 10x10 Recap

11/12/2010 7:10:27 PM by Martin M Yadrick MBA MS RD FADA

Having just returned from ADA’s 2010 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo in Boston, I have been reflecting on the great success of the first nutrition-focused 10x10 introductory course in biomedical informatics. In case you haven’t heard the term before, the name, 10x10, comes from the intent to train 10,000 professionals on informatics by the year 2010. It’s an on-line introductory course in... read more