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05/09/2012

University of California Spearheading New Initiative To Mine 'Big Data' in Health Care

AudioNIH Director Francis Collins, Atul Butte of the Stanford School of Medicine, David Patterson of the University of California-Berkeley and Taylor Sittler of UC-San Francisco discussed new efforts to mine "big data" for health care and scientific research.

12/14/2011

States Making Progress in Tracking Diseases Electronically, but More Work Remains

AudioKathleen Gallagher of CDC, Kathryn Turner of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Sara Cody of the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health spoke with iHealthBeat about states' progress in electronic disease tracking and the remaining obstacles.

12/08/2010

Earl Ferguson of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network on Using Technology To Improve Care

VideoEarl Ferguson, director of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network, spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can help people in rural areas obtain access to primary care providers and specialists.

12/23/2009

Social Media Applications Offer New Strategies for Educating Young People About H1N1 Flu

AudioAnita Barry, Margaux Joffe and Ann Scales of the Boston Public Health Commission spoke with iHealthBeat about using social media to disseminate health care information.

08/26/2009

Health Agencies Face Numerous Challenges in Using Health IT Systems To Monitor Pandemics

AudioJulia Gunn of the Boston Public Health Commission, Bob Hart of Veratect, Jeff Levi of Trust for America's Health and Henry Niman of Recombinomics spoke with iHealthBeat about current gaps in pandemic tracking systems.

03/27/2009

Health Policy Experts Push for Network To Share Clinical Data on Medicaid, Medicare Beneficiaries

AudioKaren Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, Lynn Etheredge director of the Rapid Learning Project, and Margaret O’Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, talked about the proposed network with iHealthBeat.

11/19/2008

Google's New Flu Tracking Tool Raises Concerns About Internet Users' Privacy, Experts Say

AudioLillie Coney of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights and Lisa Winston of the University of California-San Francisco discuss the privacy implications of Google's Flu Trends tool.

09/05/2008

Biosurveillance: A National Effort in EDs To Identify, Deal With Health Care Threats

AudioJeff Johnson, an epidemiologist; Dean Lampman, a surveillance coordinator; Leslie Lenert, a health informatics expert; and Bill Stephens, a public health expert, discussed the national effort with iHealthBeat.

08/04/2008

Online Registration Programs Credited for Increase in Number of Organ Donors

AudioKatrina Bramstedt, a clinical ethicist at California Pacific Medical Center, and Bryan Stewart, president of Donate Life California, discussed the effort to boost the number of organ donors nationwide through online registration.

07/01/2008

Open-Source Network Focused on Cancer Gaining Ground as More Groups Participate

AudioKen Buetow of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics, Eliot Siegel of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Peter Traber of Baylor College of Medicine discuss NCI's caBIG project.

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