Head of the United Nations launches a study of nuclear accident (AP)

UNITED NATIONS - organization of the United Nations will undertake a study of the system on the consequences of the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear - to Japan, the Secretary General Ban Ki moon, said Friday.

Several organizations will prepare a report dealing with the effects of nuclear safety in areas including the environment, health and food safety. It must be presented at a meeting of high-level nuclear safety and security on 22 September, in the General Assembly in New York.

"Nuclear safety is a global public, serving the interests of all the peoples of the world," said the head of the United Nations.

"Forward, the effects of a disaster of the nuclear - cleaning prevention - should be more fully reflected in the assessment of the way to ensure the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the maximum of security."

A March 11 earthquake triggered a tsunami which eliminated the factory of Fukushima Dai-ichi, causing the worst nuclear crisis of the world since Chernobyl, cooling systems. Fuel rods seem to have melted in large part to three of the plants reactors.

Radiation leak prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents and combating dangerous to hold the reactors is expected to continue in 2012.

Executives of the organizations of the United Nations, including the international agency of Atomic Energy, World Organization of the health, development of the United Nations, food and agricultural organization and World Meteorological Organization participated with prohibition in videoconferencing Friday about the study.

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VA launches Health Information Exchange pilot

As the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to build its health information technology infrastructure to serve the population veteran, the Ministry said that it starts a project pilot in the Richmond area to improve the provision of information on the health of veterans.

The driver, announced last week, is to Richmond VA Medical Center and MedVirginia (MedVA), a healthcare it group serving central Virginia which was created in 2000 by a consortium of Virginia health care providers. The two organizations will partner to create a comprehensive health information network for the exchange of health information using health virtual electronic lifetime record (VLER) for VA.

VLER actions select the exhibits medical of a fighters electronically, safely, and private with other health care establishments approved who are members of the National Health Information network. VLER health program has developed the exchange of information between different health care systems.

WILL chose the Richmond region because it has a high concentration of veterans, retired military personnel and members of the guard and reserve this region. The Richmond VA Medical Center serves as an estimate of 200,000 from 52 cities and counties veterans.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki k., stated that "this pilot project is a step in more taken to deliver an electronic record of virtual life for Veterans of our country and members of the service".

MedVirginia, the Richmond group, has long been put emphasis on initiatives to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through it, innovations, including the launch of the MedVirginia Solution, a health information exchange, 2006 community. Richmond driver builds on the success of the pilots VLER program at San Diego and Hampton Roads/Tidewater, Virginia Participants will exchange information using health information network in the country.

VA says vets in the Richmond region will be invited to participate in this programme of exchange of health data, which went live on March 11. Veterans who choose to participate will authorize their public health professionals and the private sector and physicians to share specific health electronic information. No exchange of information will occur without the permission of each patient.

VA has made several recent announcements that it is moving forward with a comprehensive health information technology strategy. Earlier this month, Thebes released a request for project proposals develop an electronic health record system based on open source.

Last November, the Ministry said it will work with a private contractor to expedite decisions of claims and substantially reduce the average time needed to obtain the medical records of private doctors.

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Vanderbilt launches Cancer decision Support tool

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Slideshow: Health, it stimulates the Patient Care, SafetyVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) has launched the nation first cancer personalized decision support website which will allow to collect and distribute information on the growing list of genetic mutations which impact on various cancersas well as to provide links to research papers on the various treatment options based on specific mutations.

The online tool, my Cancer genome, is linked to StarPanel electronic medical record (EMR) database of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, giving doctors the ability to refer patients, the results of laboratory medical history, medications and other medical information with data that allows to follow the latest developments in personalized medicine online from cancer and clinical research.

In an interview with InformationWeek, William Pao, Associate Professor of medicine and Director of personalized medicine for cancer to the VICC, said that the cancer research community provides that landscape is likely to become more complex as new clinically relevant mutations are discovered.

"We aspire to be the site of reference, so that the up-to-date data on clinical associations between mutations and therapeutic results will be easy to find," said Pao. "An approach genetically informed cancer medicine is currently in its infancy, but promising results using this approach, we anticipate that it will become more widely adopted."

PAO also noted that widespread adoption of a genetically informed occur approach, it will be important that persons making clinical decisions, as well as patients, the information that they need at their fingertips. "We hope that this website will provide information to date to help people make informed treatment decisions," he said.

To help speed processing decisions based on the best available scientific data, physicians who receive a tumour laboratory results showing a mutation in a specific gene that is relatively rare profiling can log on to my Cancer genome tool and, in a few minutes, find the latest information on the clinical implications of the gene.

The doctor may then recommend the treatment that is currently available or refer the patient to a clinical trial that is testing targeted for the gene therapy. Patients can also visit the VICC Web site and learn more about their cancer using the online tool.

"Once we test tumor of the patient for specific mutations, test results of remaining in a patient's medical record, as well as new treatments become available for each mutation, our physicians will have this information at your fingertips.""Mia Levy, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and medicine clinical Informatics Officer and VICC cancer, said in a news release.

The first two forms of cancer featured on information tool my Cancer of the genome of the CIVC are melanoma and lung cancer.

"In the future, will the Web site have more content, not only on lung cancer and melanoma, but the cancer of the colon, thymic carcinoma and other malignancies, breast cancer" said DTP. "We hope eventually make searchable data so that people can type in their type of cancer and their tumor mutations to find relevant clinical information about their specific disease." In the end, the Web site could become a collaborative tool among the cancer community to accelerate the development of therapies and improve outcomes for patients, "Added Pao."

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