Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird … Continue reading Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

Personally experiencing the nightmare of health IT

Robots, iPhones, and Windows XP—a personal journey through hospital IT Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I rushed my wife to the emergency room at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital. What she thought was just the stomach bug du jour turned out to be a life-threatening condition that would take her to nearly every corn… … Continue reading Personally experiencing the nightmare of health IT

JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast

Dr. Jonathan Pevsner will be discussing "Bioinformatics approach to understanding childhood brain disorders".  Dr. Pevsner is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds a Primary Faculty Appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles … Continue reading JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast