Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM today launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium. The consortium is establishing the open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.

An impressive, alarming, exciting video about the state of things past, present and future. check it out here .

Kohane and Mandl discuss the implications of the economic stimulus package on health care. Read it here .

recently the Rzhetsky lab published a recipe for publishing high impact research

At the recent AMIA summit on Translational Bioinformatics, Russ Altman delivered a fantastic year in review . Check it out.