The new Aberdeen medical record.

The new Aberdeen medical record.

An Exploration of New Ranking Strategies for Medical Record Tracks

We report our system and experiments at the 2011 Medical Record Track. Our goal is to return most relevant visits according to a query. In particular, we start with an axiomatic retrieval, and combine it with an aspect based term proximity strategy to improve the retrieval performance. We also propose a “disease-­diversity” strategy based on the assumption that most of documents only contain in...

HIPAA regulations - a new era of medical-record privacy?

Although the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regarding the privacy of medical records are new, 1 the concept of using federal law to protect the privacy of medical records is not. The substance of the new regulations can be traced back to work done in the 1970s, especially the report of the Privacy Protection Study Commission, which help...

Aspergillus medius, a new record to the mycobiota of Iran

During isolation of Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G. Winter from apple leaves and fruits in the laboratory, some fungi appeared as culture contaminants. From these, an isolate was identified as Aspergillus medius R. Meissn. (teleomorph known as Eurotium medium C.F.W. Meissn.), based on morphological and molecular data (sequences of ITS rDNA).

Aberdeen and the Enlightenment

important contributions made to British rheumatology by the Medical Research Council. As with so many well-meant volumes of this sort, the book becomes more than a trifle self-congratulatory. I have no doubt that in this country the Heberden Society was a much-needed stimulus to the development ofa group of professional rheumatologists, for whom the Society provided self-respect at a time when ...