Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios

links for 2009-12-04

2009-12-04T20:00:58-08:00

XForms 1.1

XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF or SVG. An XForms-based web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. The underlying data of a form is organized into instances of data schema (though formal schema definitions are not required).

(tags: xml xforms xfdl hci user+experience w3c)
XFDL Version 4.0 Specification DRAFT 1

This document describes an XML syntax for the Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL). The purpose of XFDL is to solve the body of problems associated with digitally representing complex forms such as those found in business and government. The requirements include support for high precision layout, supporting documentation, integrated computations and input validation, multiple overlapping digital signatures, and legally binding auditable transaction records, by maintaining the whole form as a single unit such that digital signatures can capture the entire context of transactions.

(tags: xml xfdl hci user+experience)

2009-12-02T20:01:08-08:00

EETimes.com - Ten emerging technologies to watch in 2010

Recessions are the times of change when R&D investments get pushed to the fore. It is well known that when markets and prosperity return they never return in exactly the same form that they went away.

(tags: scenario+planning technology entrepreneurship)

2009-12-01T20:01:15-08:00

An Introductory Overview of the HIPAA 5010

'The implementation of HIPAA 5010 presents substantial changes in the content of the data that you submit with your claims as well as the data available to you in response to your electronic inquiries. The implementation will require changes to the software, systems, and perhaps procedures that you use for billing Medicare and other payers. So it is extremely important that you are aware of these HIPAA changes and plan for their implementation.'

(tags: HIPAA health+IT health+informatics healthcare+policy)

2009-11-30T20:01:32-08:00

DARTNet - AHRQ Effective Health Care Program

'The Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet) is a federated network of electronic health databases created in 2008. Its purpose is to facilitate quality improvement of primary healthcare and to efficiently compile clinically-enriched data for comparative effectiveness research. A federated network such as DARTNet links geographically and organizationally separate databases to allow a single query to pull information from multiple databases while maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of each database.'

(tags: database search distributed+processing distributed+resource+framework)
ICT Results - P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search

'A team of researchers have turned to peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, in which data is distributed and shared directly between computers, to power potent yet data intensive audiovisual search technology. The technique, known as query by example, uses content, rather than text, to search for similar content, providing more accurate search results and reducing or even eliminating the need for pictures, videos and audio recordings to be laboriously annotated manually. However, effectively implementing content-based search on a large scale requires a fundamentally different approach to the text-based search technology running on the centralised systems of the likes of Google, Yahoo and MSN.'

(tags: search visualization folksonomy)

2009-11-23T20:01:45-08:00

BNF Grammar for ISO/IEC 9075:1992 - Database Language SQL (SQL-92)

the BNF syntax for SQL-92, minus some language variable binding definitions.

(tags: sql sql-92 reference bnf)