Is there a disconnect in how health information gets translated from lab to layperson through public health campaigns and the media?
Hurricane Hackers, a website from MIT's Media Lab which offers real-time information on projects related to the storm, has been receiving very high levels of traffic.
Earlier this year, in a Forbes issue focused on the burgeoning consumer genetic industry, I wrote a small piece on the possibility for surreptitious DNA testing, i.e. someone sending your genetic information to a DNA lab without your knowledge.
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The information from the Data Sensing Lab will then be displayed on a number of screens scattered around the conference floor.
Over the last 20 years or so it has expanded its mission from reducing costs in hospital supply chains to also aggregating hospital data for information on quality, safety and lab data.
Cerner sells software and systems that organize and deliver patient information to doctors, nurses, pharmacists and lab techs.
The project is a joint research initiative of nine partners including Atos, Athens Information Technology, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, City of Santander, and PRISA Digital and Telesto.
Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.
Less than three years ago, bioinformaticians at Stanford University set out to capture information buried, not just in insurance claims, lab tests or medical codes, but in the rich narrative of 10 million clinical notes gleaned from 1.8 million patients on Epic Systems electronic health records.
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The Materials Project is a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to accelerate innovation in materials research by providing materials researchers with the information they need.
"Help me build the school in the cloud, a learning lab in India where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online, " he said.
Venus boxes will supposedly allow the majority of TV owners to leapfrog that stage and enter the information superhighway almost immediately. (The devices, developed at Microsoft's Beijing lab, are expected to be ready by the end of the year.) This, say Venus boosters, is a modern device with Chinese characteristics.
The DOE and the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most of the data were cached.
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