Recent Articles
Canadian Economic Stimulus Includes $500m for Health IT
The government of Canada is to spend an additional $500 million on Electronic Health Records to help stimulate the economy: An electronic health record system…
WSJ Criticizes Health IT Stimulus Package
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal is critical of the new $20 billion Health IT portion of the US stimulus package. In particular, they are against…
Health Informatics Post Graduate Course at Auckland University
We've just put up a student profile on the NIHI (National Institute for Health Innovation) blog: http://nihi.net.nz/2009/02/01/a-student%e2%80%99s-view-on-postgraduate-health-informatics/ Sandra Oldfield, a recent graduate of the University…
Why we get sick: Darwinian Medicine
Randolph Nesse talks to Richard Dawkins about 'Darwinian Medicine': [youtube=http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9ks3kygHA]
Health Informatics Conferences
We've been compiling details of upcoming Health Informatics conferences and events on the Health Informatics Discussion Forum: https://www.digitalhealthbase.org/events So far we have: If you want…
Clinical Information Technologies and Inpatient Outcomes: A Multiple Hospital Study
Interesting article in the Archives of Internal Medicine that concludes: "Hospitals with automated notes and records, order entry, and clinical decision support had fewer complications,…