Author Archives: Ravi Shankar

2012 AMIA Conference (on health informatics)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ravi Shankar

AMIA (the American Medical Informatics Association) held its conference in Chicago in November 2012. It was a large conference attended by both physicians and academics interested in furthering the goals of the US health care legislation.

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2013 CIEC Conference (on industry-education collaborations)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ravi Shankar

The 2013 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) was held in Phoenix, AZ in February 2013. It brought together about 250 industry and academic representatives

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JAMIA ( Journal on health informatics)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ravi Shankar

March 2013 issue: It has general articles on (1) healthcare IT and economics (Payne et al.) ; (2) scope of informatics (Friedman); (3) impact of health IT certification and meaningful use; and research articles on (Vest et al.)   (4) … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing (for IT infrastructure support)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ravi Shankar

Two recent books cover this topic well, albeit from very different perspectives: The Little Book of Cloud Computing – 2013 Edition, by  L. Nielsen, and The Clout at Your Service, by J. Rosenberg and A. Mateos.

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