http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=ub2020-ict en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-12T16:38:17-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9368 Erie County Executive Chris Collins will make opening remarks at a dinner to kick off a 'pre-seed' workshop for Western New York researchers and entrepreneurs considering the launch of a technology-based business. 2008-05-06T00:00:00-04:00 93680009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9298 Local company Medcotek, Inc., has signed a licensing agreement with the University at Buffalo for use of a new technology that will advance the company's entry into the lucrative teleradiology market. 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 92980009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9253 Teacher Julianne Chamberlin's eighth-grade physical science class is as fun as it is informative. For proof, just check her Web site. Chamberlin has adopted educational methods developed by Randy Yerrick, professor and associate dean of educational technology in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. Using examples of effective teaching known as "inquiry learning" as a kind of cyberspace lesson plan, Yerrick has merged proven classroom methods with state-of-the-art technology, including podcasting, movie-making and digital photography. 2008-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 92530009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9226 From designing safer intersections to helping vehicular accident victims overcome their fears, a new driving simulation laboratory is now open for business in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 2008-03-12T00:00:00-04:00 92260009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9067 Computer scientists in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working with their colleagues in UB's Graduate School of Education to develop a computational tool that not only dramatically reduces the time it takes to grade children's handwritten essays, but that also may help boost students' reading comprehension skills. 2008-01-14T00:00:00-04:00 90670009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9059 Medication errors are one of the most serious problems occurring in doctor's offices and out-patient clinics, and older persons with chronic conditions are the most vulnerable. An experimental information technology (IT) intervention designed to help reduce such errors, developed by Gurdev Singh, Ph.D., director of the Patient Safety Research Center at the University at Buffalo, will begin this spring in eight ambulatory medical offices throughout Western New York. 2008-01-03T00:00:00-04:00 90590009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9058 Slow diffusion of patient-managed electronic health information record technologies, or PHRs, has limited the development of an interoperable health information infrastructure that will greatly improve health-care quality and cost and will save lives. For this reason, increasing PHR diffusion has been called a top priority by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 2008-01-03T00:00:00-04:00 90580009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9008 The University at Buffalo Music Library has received a grant from the J. Warren Perry and Charles Donald Perry Memorial Trust of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to begin reformatting to CD a portion of its invaluable holdings of reel-to-reel tape recordings dating to the 1960s. 2007-12-03T00:00:00-04:00 90080009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8992 Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a field study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo and other institutions recently revealed. 2007-11-26T00:00:00-04:00 89920009