Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Observational StudyClinical documentation improvement for outpatients by implementing electronic medical records.
This observational study was conducted before and after implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system to evaluate the change in outpatient workflow by implementation of EMR and the effectiveness of clinical documentation improvement (CDI). The number of hours for patient care increased by 89.2% (p < .05) and the hours for writing medical records after consulting decreased after implementation of EMR by 27.3% (p < .01). ⋯ The necessary change in the information management process occurred after using the CDI indicator. We recommend that the "working hours of health professionals" and "handling hours for information resources" should be used widely as CDI indicators to improve workflow when implementing EMR.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
An open-source, mobile-friendly search engine for public medical knowledge.
The World Wide Web has become an important source of information for medical practitioners. To complement the capabilities of currently available web search engines we developed FindMeEvidence, an open-source, mobile-friendly medical search engine. In a preliminary evaluation, the quality of results from FindMeEvidence proved to be competitive with those from TRIP Database, an established, closed-source search engine for evidence-based medicine.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Tourniquet Master Training for Junctional and Inguinal Hemorrhage Control (TMT).
Junctional and inguinal bleeding is a significant and challenging problem on the battlefield. Inventors have developed new types of tourniquets, including the Abdominal Aortic Tourniquet™ (AAT) and the Combat Ready Clamp™ (CRoC) to address these abdominal and pelvic injuries. ⋯ To address these needs, a sensor-enabled manikin was designed. Using the sensor data, the different phases of applying the tourniquet were captured and key performance was measured.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
A Personal Health Record System for Diabetes Care Conforming to the ISO 16527 Interoperability Requirements.
A Personal Health Record (PHR) is a health information repository controlled and managed directly by a patient or his/her custodian, or a person interested in his/her own health. PHR System's adoption and compliance with international standards is foremost important because it can help to meet international, national, regional or institutional interoperability and portability policies. ⋯ Interoperability functions were added to this platform by integrating the Mirth Connect platform. The assessment of the platform's interoperability capabilities was carried out by a group of experts, who verified the interoperability requirements proposed in the ISO 16527 standard.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Conceptual Model Formalization in a Semantic Interoperability Service Framework: Transforming Relational Database Schemas to OWL.
Healthcare information is distributed through multiple heterogeneous and autonomous systems. Access to, and sharing of, distributed information sources are a challenging task. ⋯ The proposed service makes use of an algorithm that allows to transform several data models of different domains by deploying mainly inheritance rules. The paper emphasizes the relevance of integrating the proposed approach into an ontology-based interoperability service to achieve semantic interoperability.