Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Biomedical and health informatics"
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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Exploring Engagement in MoodTech: An Online CBT Intervention for Older Adults with Depression
In recent years, online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions have played an increasing role in treating late-life depression. Previous studies have reported that online CBT interventions can be effective in ... -
A New Perspective on Minimally Invasive Procedures: Exploring the Utility of a Novel Virtual Reality Endovascular Navigation System
Digital information is playing a larger role in the treatment of disease. Invasive procedures, such as open-heart surgery, have evolved into minimally invasive procedures that benefit from reduced trauma, scarring and ... -
A Wireframe Representation of a Prototype Clinical Decision Support Tool For the Management of Cardiometabolic Disorder and Diabetes Type 2
This research developed a wireframe representation of a prototype Clinical Decision Support Tool that enables the comprehensive, efficient and efficacious management of patients with Cardiometabolic Disorder and Diabetes ... -
Acute Care Sepsis Prediction: Analyzing the Influence of Social and Behavioral Determinants
Within the hospital setting, sepsis is a leading cause of mortality, affecting more than 1.7 million adults annually. It is also present in about 30 to 50 percent of hospitalizations that end with death. Despite the high ... -
An Evaluation of the Insidious Consequences of Clinical Computing Infrastructure Failures at a Large Academic Medical Center
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are intended to make healthcare delivery safer, more effective and accountable. They are complex socio-technical systems that are dependent on the proper functioning of many individual ... -
Assessing the Feasibility of Predictive Modeling for HFE- Hereditary Hemochromatosis using Electronic Health Records
Secondary use of electronic health records allows researchers the opportunity to test hypothe ses and gain new insights on complex disease phenotypes. Hereditary hemochromatosis is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder ... -
Assessing the fitness for use of real-world electronic health records and log data with and without the application of privacy preserving technologies
Over the past decade, electronic health record (EHR) adoption has led to an explosion in the volume of electronic health record and log data, then efforts to effectively harness the potential of these data for knowledge ... -
Assessing the utility of digital health technology to improve our capacity to assess and intervene in depression
When it comes to mental health, no country is considered developed. In the last decade, the burden of mental health disorders (MHD) has risen in all countries due to disparities in timely diagnosis and access to evidence-based ... -
Bicluster-Based Identification of Gene Sets Through Multivariate Meta-Analysis (MVMA)
Omics technologies are among the most exciting developments in biology and medicine in recent decades. They offer a whole new way of investigating a sample or a patient by taking comprehensive molecular-level snapshots. ... -
Data Mining the Electronic Medical Record with Intelligent Agents to Inform Decision Support Systems
An intelligent agent framework is used on an ICU EMR to create prediction models for disease onset. Eleven models are created to inspect 5 diseases: acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); severe acute hypoxemic ... -
Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Health Dialog System to Support Inguinal Hernia Surgery Patient Information-Seeking
Surgery patients engage in health information-seeking activities to better understand their health conditions. An example of this activity is patients collecting data outside of the hospital to track their surgery recovery. ... -
Developing and Evaluating a Prototype Communicable Disease Web-based Clinical Reporting Tool
Reporting reportable diseases within a timeframe is considered a cornerstone of any public health surveillance system. The purpose of surveillance is to empower decision makers to act by providing timely and accurate data. ... -
Enhancing Secondary-use of Electronic Health Records for Geospatial-temporal Population Health Research
For almost three decades, the United States Department of Human and Health Services, Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization have recognized the role of social and environmental determinants of health ... -
Ensuring patient privacy and accuracy of analytical methods to support evidence-based healthcare
Over the past two decades, healthcare providers substantially increased their use of electronic health record (EHR) systems. EHRs are primed to become the core of the data driven healthcare system, with the potential to ... -
Evaluating Different Approaches to Simplifying Data Access for Clinical Users
Researchers have difficulty in accessing health care data for multiple different reasons. Although some technologies, like i2b2, have been developed and evaluated to overcome these difficulties, limitations and challenges ... -
Evaluation of a Computer-Based System using Cell Phones for HIV positive people in Peru
(2012-09-13)HIV is one of the biggest infectious killers worldwide. To prevent disease progression and avoid development of resistant strains to HIV, people living with HIV must adhere to complicated antiretroviral therapy (ART). Yet, ... -
Everyone’s Variant Annotation Tool: EVAT
Currently, there is a lot of genetic variant information distributed in many different databases, and it will cost individuals plenty of time to retrieve data from those resources. In this thesis, I develop EVAT(Everyone’s ... -
Examining the Feasibility of Internet of Things Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place
The older adult population is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in the United States. Older adults face challenges such as chronic health conditions, reduced mobility, and cognitive decline. Technological ... -
Genetic Association to adverse drug events in the eMERGE Pharmacogenomics cohort
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network was created to combine DNA biorepositories with electronic medical (EMR) data to support genomic research. The eMERGE ... -
Identification of Physicians and EHR User Types
In recent years, the adoption and meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have undergone several promotions by governmental acts and incentive programs, with the promise of plenty of benefits. One of the most ...