IT in Health Care: Sociotechnical Approaches “To Err is System”. Int J Med Inform. 2007 Jun;76 Suppl 1:1-3 Authors: Aarts J, Gorman P PMID: 17466251 [PubMed – in process] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Conclusions: The proposed text classification framework utilizing randomly sampled unlabeled articles can facilitate a cost-effective approach to training machine learning classifiers in a real-life Internet-based biosurveillance project. We plan to examine this framework further using larger data sets and using … Continued
Authors: Ludwick DA, Doucette J The adoption of health information systems is seen world wide as one method to mitigate the widening health care demand and supply gap. The purpose of this review was to identify the current state of … Continued
CONCLUSION: It is not necessarily the case that electronic discharge summaries are of higher quality than handwritten ones, but free text items such as summary of the patient’s progress may less likely be omitted in electronic summaries. It is unknown … Continued
Authors: Angulo C, Crespo P, Maldonado JA, Moner D, Pérez D, Abad I, Mandingorra J, Robles M In this paper we describe Pangea-LE, a message-oriented lightweight data integration engine that allows homogeneous and concurrent access to clinical information from disperse … Continued
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NYCLIX Selects FirstGateways™ to Build Regional Health Information Exchange Infrastructure in New York City – August 27, 2007 NYCLIX, Inc. has entered into a contract with First Consulting Group to provide the technical infrastructure for NYCLIX’s health information exchange services..
Conclusions: Our findings indicate that participants’ attitudes towards the idea of wireless sensor networks for health monitoring are generally positive. The exploratory findings along with the literature suggest a number of relationships which can be used in future survey design … Continued
CONCLUSION: This study removes some uncertainties regarding the feasibility of introducing speech recognition for anaesthesia records during operations, and provides an overview of the interaction of several parameters that are traditionally studied separately. PMID: 17194621 [PubMed – as supplied by … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: Simulation results showed that the embedded DCT-CSPIHT image compression reduced the computational complexity to only a quarter of the wavelet-based subband decomposition, and improved the quality of the reconstructed medical image as given by both the peak signal-to-noise ratio … Continued