How Lifestyle Can Improve Health Expenses

How Ontologies Can Improve Semantic Interoperability in Health Care

The main rationale of biomedical terminologies and formalized clinical information models is to provide semantic standards to improve the exchange of meaningful clinical information. Whereas terminologies should express context-independent meanings of domain terms, information models are built to represent the situational and epistemic contexts in which domain terms are used. In practice, seman...

How Electronic Clinical Data Can Improve Health Technology Assessment

Health technology assessments represent comprehensive summaries of available evidence and information on a technology. They are used by medical decision makers in a variety of ways, including diagnostic testing, treatment selection, care management, patient perspectives, patient safety, insurance coverage, pharmaceutical innovation, equipment planning, device purchasing, and total cost-of-care....

Beyond Disease , How Biomedical Engineering Can Improve Global Health

C R E D IT : V . A L T O U N IA N / C IE N C E T R A N S L A T IO N A L M E D IC IN E Biomedical engineers have a long history of applying innovative tools and technologies, such as organotypic tissue models and multimodal imaging, to uncover new mechanisms of disease and, in turn, improve human health. But human—and global— health requires more than just a disease focus; challenges in providin...

How the low carbon economy can improve health.

How can developing countries harness biotechnology to improve health?

BACKGROUND The benefits of genomics and biotechnology are concentrated primarily in the industrialized world, while their potential to combat neglected diseases in the developing world has been largely untapped. Without building developing world biotechnology capacity to address local health needs, this disparity will only intensify. To assess the potential of genomics to address health needs i...