To determine the effect on clinical information retrieval of structuring typical clinical documents in XML, according to the general guidelines of Health Level Seven’s Clinical Document Architecture.One thousand clinical documents of eight frequently ...
Nowadays, web-based learning services are a key topic in the pedagogical and learning strategies of universities. While organisational and teaching requirements of the learning environment are being evaluated, technical specifications are emerging, enabling ...
Electronic discovery of the clinical trials being performed at a specific research center is a challenging task, which presently requires manual review of the center’s locally maintained databases or web pages of protocol listings. Near real-time ...
This paper focuses on one dimension of personal health information seeking: perception of quality and trustworthiness of information sources.Intensive interviews were conducted using a conversational, unstructured, exploratory interview style.Interviews ...
SKOLAR has implemented a web-based CME program with which physicians can earn AMA Category 1 credit for self-directed learning.Physicians researched their questions in SKOLAR and applied for CME. Physician auditors reviewed all requests across two phases ...
We present a heuristic method to map lexical (syntactic) information from one lexicon to another, and apply the technique to augment the lexicon of the Link Grammar Parser with an enormous medical vocabulary drawn from the Specialist lexicon developed ...
The Institute of Medicine stressed the need for continuous healing relationships, yet the delivery of health care has traditionally been confined to the physician office or hospital. We implemented an eHealth application tightly integrated with our electronic ...
This paper discusses an approach to exporting relational data in XML format for data exchange over the web. We describe the first real-world application of SilkRoute, a middleware program that dynamically converts existing relational data to a user-defined ...
Although amblyopia is most successfully treated when detected in early childhood, many preschool-aged children are not being screened. This project explored the delivery of Web-based vision screenings, integrated with patient education, to parents and ...
GLARE (GuideLine Acquisition, Representation and Execution) is a domain-independent system for the acquisition, representation and execution of clinical guidelines. Temporal constraints play an important role within clinical guidelines (e.g. to specify ...
Emergency Department (ED) data are a key component of bioterrorism surveillance systems. Little research has been done to examine differences in ED data capture and entry across hospitals, regions and states. The purpose of this study was to describe ...
The increasing need for extrapolating information from one species to another has been highlighted by contemporary research in bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and animal models of human disease, as well as other fields. We propose an approach to ...
Healthcare consumers often have difficulty expressing and understanding medical concepts. The goal of this study is to identify and characterize medical expressions or “terms” (linguistic forms and associated concepts) used by consumers ...
We propose that recommendations in a clinical guideline can be structured either as collections of decisions that are to be applied in specific situations or as processes that specify activities that take place over time. We formalize them as “recommendation ...
The nervous system is a powerful information processing machine, especially for vision. Neuromimetic methods try to extract some of the most powerful strategies of the neural system to apply them to help to solve delicate engineering problems. We developed ...
Detection and prevention of adverse events and, in particular, adverse drug events (ADEs), is an important problem in health care today. We describe the implementation and evaluation of four variations on the simple Bayes model for identifying ADE-related ...
We developed the Guideline Execution by Semantic Decomposition of Representation (GESDOR) model to share guidelines encoded in different formats at the execution level. For this purpose, we extracted a set of generalized guideline execution tasks from ...
The use of a standardized controlled terminology allows diverse systems and applications throughout the enterprise to translate data. In developing a customized enterprise-wide vocabulary for clinical terminology, we implemented SNOMED CT as a base vocabulary, ...
Genes are discovered almost on a daily basis and new names have to be found. Although there are guidelines for gene nomenclature, the naming process is highly creative. Human genes are often named with a gene symbol and a longer, more descriptive term; ...
Videoconferencing between patients and their physicians can increase patients’ access to healthcare. Unscheduled videoconferencing can benefit patients with acute medical problems but has not been studied extensively. We conducted a clinical trial ...
Indexing of documents is an important strategy intended to make the literature more readily available to the user. Here we describe several dimensions of indexing that are important if indexing is to be optimal. These dimensions are coverage, predictability, ...
Clinical end users of MEDLINE must be able to retrieve articles that are both scientifically sound and directly relevant to clinical practice. The use of methodologic search filters has been advocated to improve the accuracy of searching for such studies. ...
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is a disruptive technology but holds great promise for reducing medical errors, improving workflow and in the long run, producing cost-savings. However, many studies have reported significant physician resistance ...
Background: The gaining interest in the use of clinical prediction guides as an aid for helping clinicians make effective front-line decisions, together with the increasing emphasis on evidence-based practice, underscores the need for accurate identification ...
This paper reports the methods and evaluation of a computer-based system that recommends microarray experimental design for biologists — causal discovery in Gene Expression data using Expected Value of Experimentation (GEEVE). The GEEVE system ...