medical
RSS medicalVisualization Methods for Data Analysis and Planning in Medical Applications
White Paper The medical history of a patient represents the past, which needs to be understood by the physician to make the right decisions. Time plays an important role in medicine, both the past and the future. [01 Oct 2008]
Context-Aware Data Mining Framework for Wireless Medical Application
White Paper Data mining, which aims at extracting interesting information from large collections of data, has been widely used as an effective decision making tool. Mining the datasets in the presence of context factors may improve performance and... [01 Oct 2008]
Data Mining on Temporal Data: A Visual Approach and Its Clinical Application to Hemodialysis
White Paper The quantity and complexity of data acquired, time-stamped and stored in clinical databases by automated medical devices is rapidly and continuously increasing. This paper proposes an approach for visual data mining on... [01 Oct 2008]
Use of Recurrent Neural Networks for Strategic Data Mining of Sales Information
White Paper This paper discusses the use of neural network based data mining and knowledge discovery techniques to optimize inventory levels in a large medical distribution company. An increasing number of organizations are involved... [01 Oct 2008]
Data Mining Diabetic Databases: Are Rough Sets a Useful Addition?
White Paper Rough sets as a data mining predictive tool has been used in medical areas since the late 1980s, but not applied to the PIDD to one's knowledge. The publicly available Pima Indian Diabetic Database (PIDD) at the... [01 Oct 2008]
Ethics, complexity spark U-turn on NHS records
News The NHS is to overhaul the way staff access electronic medical records following concerns the existing system is unethical. Patients will still have to opt out of having a SCR created from their medical... [19 Sep 2008]
Using Text Mining to Classify Lay Requests to a Medical Expert Forum and to Prepare Semiautomatic Answers
White Paper The paper developed a scoring procedure to automatically classify lay requests to an internet medical forum about involuntary childlessness. The requests should be classified according to their subject matter (32... [19 Sep 2008]
Note-Taking Software Is Helping Today's Medical Students Become Tomorrow's Doctors
White Paper The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is an integral component of one of North America's largest health science complexes. Affiliated with a network of teaching hospitals and community-based health units, the Faculty offers... [19 Sep 2008]
Assistive Technology Makes Lifetime of Difference to UnumProvident Medical Director
White Paper UnumProvident Corporation is a publicly owned insurance holding company. In a company dedicated to helping people with disabilities, they demonstrate that having a physical disability doesn't need to be an impediment to succeeding in a... [19 Sep 2008]
Collaborative Technology Prepares New Zealand Medical Robotics Innovator for Global Growth
White Paper Smart Orthotics Limited is a New Zealand based technology company that has designed and developed a world-first 'Smart' disability aid that enables disabled users to walk by using patented robotic technologies. [19 Sep 2008]
Accelerators Double Bio-Imaging's Managed Network Speed and Efficiency
White Paper Bio-Imaging regularly transfers large medical files from site to site over its T1 frame relay network. The size and number of medical images that are transferred varies from day to day and even minute to... [19 Sep 2008]
Healthcare Provider Increases Preventive Care, Boosts Efficiency With Speech Solution
White Paper The organization provides medical benefits to more than 200,000 low-income and disabled members. Based in Monterey Park, California, Care1st Health Plan is a growing healthcare network of physicians and hospitals. [19 Sep 2008]
Medicalodges Expands Healthcare Network Capacity With Accelerators
White Paper The volume of networked medical data was degrading the performance of Medicalodges' network. Medicalodges' Wide Area Network (WAN) connects 23 skilled nursing facilities, 11 assisted living centers, two facilities for... [19 Sep 2008]
Survival Data Mining: Treatment of Chronic Illness
White Paper The paper examines the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for the years 2000-2004 and validates the results using a second database for a cohort of patients with diabetes. Patients with chronic illness often have many... [19 Sep 2008]
Hospital Delivers Better Business Insight With PerformancePoint Server 2007
White Paper In order to promote greater visibility and accountability in its processes, Credit Valley needed a more cost-effective method to track and monitor medical resource, patient and financial information. The Credit Valley... [19 Sep 2008]
