Dr. Halamka makes a great point here on structured data and the challenges of the analytics portion of the puzzle. Not too long ago I posed about mapping ICD codes to SNOMED and we had some what of the same ridiculous conclusion drawn which we all know is not really good here. Mapping ICD Codes...
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I have been somewhat following this company since they started out, and at that point were questioning if there was in fact a market for this type of product, and I think we have the answer now, of course there is. I also have their widget on my blog for a quick and easy look up for clinical trials...
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This is very simple and easy to use and if you have read this blog long enough you have seen other posts about Trialx. I did a few checks myself and it came back very quickly via Twitter. Obviously this is a quick check just to see what is available and gets the job done nicely. ...
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I am not sure I quite understand the purpose of this entire methodology, but is this company trying to re-invent themselves are insurers do? Again, speaking from what is published and what I have read, are we trying to make use of data that has already been accumulated, queried in a different fashion...
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De-identification of data base material, it’s all in a query and who’s running it. As far as I know, it’s not illegal to run queries and when matches are made, one has the rap sheet on any one of us. De-identified data bases are marketed and sold all the time for all types of purposes, genomic...
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They are mining records from e-pass cards to tell when individuals entered building, offices, etc. and other items such as emails. Most large hospitals have an IT department that is capable of running queries to obtain email exchange items and actually have program that monitor for something out...