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HIT List: PubMed, e-Journal and Self-implementations

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From: PubMed Advanced Search Page Modified. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2010 May–Jun.

The PubMed Search Builder section of the Advanced Search page will soon be modified to provide users with a more cohesive method to build searches.

This should help make searching easier. I should start upgrading my PubMed searching skills.

Found a new e-Journal: Applied Clinical Informatics

ACI (Applied Clinical Informatics)

As the Official eJournal of IMIA and AMDIS, the online journal ACI will publish approximately 100 peer reviewed articles per year. It aims to establish a platform that allows sharing knowledge between clinical medicine and health IT specialists worldwide as well as bridging gaps between visionary design and successful and pragmatic deployment.

The core editorial subject matters of ACI are: Clinical information systems (including electronic medical records and systems, personal health records, physician/provider order entry, electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, nursing information systems, patient scheduling and tracking tools, lab information systems, radiology information systems, PACS, GP information systems), administrative and management systems, eHealth systems, information technology development,  deployment, and evaluation, socio-technical aspects of information technology and health IT training.

The target group of ACI is an international and potentially very influential readership, e.g.: Chief Information Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Medical Informatics Researchers, Nurse Informaticians, Consultants, Public Health Officials, Vendors, IT Safety Healthcare providers, Informatics trainees as well as organizations such as IMIA , AMDIS, AMIA, HIMSS or the equivalent.

I hope I get to read some of the articles. Access is not free so I will have to borrow from some friends.

This bit of news caught my eye: California hospital says it’s first to self-implement VistA

Self-implementing open-source systems is almost always the norm. My previous team already “self-implemented” several open-source systems but nothing as big as VistA. This was certainly a challenge for the hospital. I smell a journal article coming about this. I’m excited to get more details about their effort.

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Written by Dr. Mike Muin

June 2nd, 2010 at 10:14 pm

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