Morning Headlines 7/5/18
A new journal for sharing informatics innovations: introducing JAMIA Open
AMIA publishes the inaugural issue of its Gold Open Access journal that will showcase the best informatics research and applications.
A JAMA Network article describes FDA’s approval of Imagen OsteoDetect for diagnosing adult wrist fractures.
Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life
Medicare claims data analysis finds flaws with the idea that spending 25 percent of in the last 12 months of life is wasteful, instead concluding that deaths are not predictable and patient conditions are rarely defined as hopeless to support reduced spending.
Twitter can’t even celebrate Independence Day without misspelling the hashtag
The US Air Force, the First Lady, and the city of Boston are among the patriotic tweeters who misspell the hashtag as #IndependanceDay, possibly because of Twitter’s autofill feature propagating an earlier error.
I generally follow AP Stylebook style guidelines: Do not use all-capital-letter names unless the letters are individually pronounced: BMW. Others…