«An all - electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase patient safety and decrease errors because the patient and the unit of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa. (fortune.com)
The project, which will look at how genes and environment interact to drive disease in kids, is different from its predecessors, says Kenneth Mandl, a physician, biomedical informaticist, and one of the project's leaders at Children's. (sciencemag.org)
«The technical people like that I know the clinical stuff, and vice versa,» says Julie Eckstrand, a research informaticist at the Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. (sciencemag.org)