Discussion: We used the concept of high-reliability organisations as proposed by Weick and Sutcliffe, 2007 , to analyse the observed coping strategies. The coping strategies can be seen as examples of the principles for managing the unexpected that Weick and … Continued
IBM and VISICU Wire Pacific Rim With Remote Critical Care Services for Military – May 14, 2007 IBM and VISICU, Inc.today announced a joint effort to wire a telemedicine network to provide remote critical care support to military hospitals along … Continued
AHIMA Encouraged By House Committee Passage of Healthcare IT Bill – May 24, 2007 “The American Health Information Management Association congratulates Rep. David Wu on his astute leadership and strong commitment to the issue of improving every aspect of healthcare … Continued
CDISC and Industry Collaborative Group Lead FDA Critical Path Initiative Opportunity for Data Collection Standards – May 21, 2007 The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium has agreed to lead a project to address one of the Food and Drug Administration’s … Continued
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to review some work conducted in the field of user testing that aims at specifying or clarifying the test procedures and at defining and developing tools to help conduct user tests. The topics … Continued
Conclusions and implications: Ambient intelligence technologies can contribute to an increased safety and security at home. The technologies alone offer no all encompassing solution as home care and additional environmental interventions are still needed to support ageing-in-place. Results of the … Continued
Abstract: Motivation: Topic segmentation and labeling systems enable fine-grained information search. However, previously proposed methods require annotated data to adapt to different information needs and have limited applicability to texts with short segment length.Methods: We introduce an unsupervised method based … Continued
Conclusion: Awareness is a complex yet crucial piece of successful ICC. The information sources that provided and supported ICC awareness were varied. The different types of awareness from the model can help us understand the explicit details of how care … Continued
Conclusions: The results of this exploratory study provide a foundation for future research examining how network structure and communication principles can be used to design health information technology that compliments the non-linear information gathering and dissemination behaviors of providers from … Continued
CONCLUSION: MET-AP shows promise in recommending the correct triage plan with similar overall accuracy to experienced pediatric EPs, but requires further research to improve accuracy and safety. MET-AP can be used on all pediatric ED patients with AP and is … Continued