CONCLUSIONS: The era of eHealth enables cooperative care and collaborative documentation. This can only be efficient if a multiple use and shared entry of data is realized. The task of the medical informatics community is to plan these environments systematically … Continued
CONCLUSION: NLP and regular expression queries of cardiologists’ ECG interpretations can more effectively identify QT prolongation than the automated QTc intervals reported by ECG machines. Future clinical decision support could employ NLP queries to detect QTc prolongation and other reported … Continued
Conclusion: This study shows how providers are actively involved in working around the interruptions in workflow by bypassing the technology or adapting the work processes. Although certain workarounds help to maintain smooth workflow and/or to ensure patient safety, others may … Continued
Conclusions: Sirius is a web-based application providing a fast and reliable work environment for retinal experts. The system allows the sharing of images and processed results between remote computers and provides automated methods to diminish inter-expert variability in the analysis … Continued
Conclusions: The web-based training system can be successfully involved in the continuous distance education in cytopathology. It provides the opportunity to access learning material from any place at any time and supports the acquisition of diagnostic knowledge. (Source: International Journal … Continued
Conclusions: The physicians’ expectations from the EMR are based on their prior beliefs rather than on a rational evaluation of the EMR’s fit, functionality, or performance. Their decision regarding the usefulness of the EMR is made very early, within the … Continued
Abstract: Protein–protein interaction (PPI) extraction is an important and widely researched task in the biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) field. Kernel-based machine learning methods have been used widely to extract PPI automatically, and several kernels focusing on different parts of … Continued
Conclusions: The electronic documentation system was perceived to perform better than the paper-based system in some aspects, with subsequent benefits to management of aged care services. In other areas, perceptions of additional benefits from the electronic documentation system were not … Continued
Research highlights: ? Organizational leadership is important to data-sharing efforts across hospital organizations. ? We developed and tested a reliable measure for quality improvement (QI) Leadership. ? This measure was associated with successful participation in data-sharing collaboratives. ? Such measures … Continued
Geospiza Expands Collaboration with Applied Biosystems to Integrate Genetic Analysis Products – August 28, 2006 Geospiza today announced the expansion of the companies’ 2005 platform collaboration agreement and its participation in Applied Biosystems’ Software Community Program..