Using EMRs to improve Efficiency : Video

Using Electronic Medical records in managing medical practices provides a number of benefits, especially in smaller practices where it is much easier to introduce. A few of these benefits include efficient and portable patient care management, lesser errors and improved patient safety.

See how one private practice made the change to electronic medical records and hear how the new technology has changed the office's workflow and staffing levels.

Though this video has been created by Intel, it is a generic video describing the benefits of EMRs to physician practices and does NOT sell anything.

Related articles

• Electronic medical record (EMR) - review of pros and cons in Cleveland Clinic medical journal (casesblog.blogspot.com)
• Using the EMR to reduce ventilator associated lung injury (doctorrw.blogspot.com)
• A Family Physician's EMR Experience (thehealthcareblog.com)

Automatic Analysis of Medical Images from Microsoft Research

Analysis of medical images is a very useful tool in modern medicine. With advent of Artificial Intelligence and Evidence Based Medicine, automatic analysis of medical images promises significant advantages in reducing diagnostic errors and increasing speed of diagnosis.

The 'Inner eye Project' by Microsoft Research is an extraordinary project which aims to extract semantic information from images. This demo shows how automatic anatomic recognition algorithms can be used in Radiology to decrease the information overload for physicians and specialists.

Furthur, it can be used for image analysis and comparison with large medical images database.

Microsoft Research is now working on extending the algorithms to allow it to pinpoint exact diseases and pathologies within the organs.This technology has potential for use in automatic diagnosis, personalized medicine and computer-assisted surgical intervention, to name a few.
Now lets just wait for something similar in Histopathology.