Special Issue Call for Papers: IS/IT Applications for the Support of Older People
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Which functionalities are available in the electronic health record systems used by French general practitioners? An assessment study of 15 systems
Conclusion: Functionalities noticeably vary among the EHR systems currently used in French primary care. Whereas these systems are globally very focused on drug prescriptions, several core functionalities are frequently lacking. They are also poorly interoperable for healthcare professionals and patients. … Continued
Exploring practice variation in preventive pressure-ulcer care using data from a clinical data repository
Conclusion: A standardized nursing-terminology-based electronic nursing record system allowed us to monitor the variations in nursing practice with regard to preventive pressure-ulcer care in intensive-care patients with and at risk of pressure ulcers. We found that pressure-ulcer prevention care was … Continued
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Implementation of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER): Findings and Lessons Learned from Health Information Exchange at 12 Sites
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
What factors affect the use of electronic patient records by Irish GPs?
This study attempts to determine the factors which affect the uptake of an EPR by Irish GPs.Methods and materials: Two national postal surveys of Irish General Practitioners (GPs) were carried out in 2000 and again in 2003. Response rates were … Continued
Intelligent Health Services
U.S. News & World Report Selects Healthline to Provide Intelligent Health Services for Its “Best Health” Site – November 14, 2006 Healthline Networks today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with U.S. News & World Report for … Continued
Perceptions and behaviour of access of the Internet: A study of women attending a breast screening service in Sydney, Australia.
CONCLUSIONS: Information searching from the Internet is common among women having a screening mammogram. There is potential to provide guidance to women regarding accessing the BreastScreen NSW website and other reliable sources of Internet information on breast health, breast screening … Continued
Using a sociotechnical framework to understand adaptations in health IT implementation
Conclusion: Collisions in frames during implementation of new technology result in adaptations at the individual and organization level that can have a variety of effects. We found adaptations to be a means of evolving both the work routines and the … Continued
Misspellings in drug information system queries: Characteristics of drug name spelling errors and strategies for their prevention
Conclusion: Drug information systems should be equipped with error-tolerant algorithms to reduce search failures. Drug initial letters are also error-prone, thus auto-completion is not a sufficient error-prevention strategy and needs additional support by error-tolerant algorithms. (Source: International Journal of Medical … Continued
Knowledge-data integration for temporal reasoning in a clinical trial system.
Authors: O’Connor MJ, Shankar RD, Parrish DB, Das AK Managing time-stamped data is essential to clinical research activities and often requires the use of considerable domain knowledge. Adequately representing and integrating temporal data and domain knowledge is difficult with the … Continued