Browsing Biomedical and health informatics by Title
Now showing items 64-83 of 100
-
Patient-Centered Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Wound Tracking Tool
Surgical site infections (SSI) are a common, costly and serious problem following surgery, affecting at least 500,000 people annually. Most infections now occur after hospital discharge, placing the burden of recognizing ... -
Patient-Peer Support to Improve Quality and Safety in the Hospital
Patient safety is a critical and persistent problem impacting health care systems around the world. Despite major financial and technological investments to improve this problem, medical errors remain a leading cause of ... -
Performance evaluation of a natural language processing tool to extract infectious disease problems
(2013-11-14)Use of a complete problem list can benefit patient care, quality improvement initiatives, and research activities. However, it can be time consuming for physicians to enter the correct encoded problem from a standardized ... -
Physician Perspectives on CYP2C19 Pharmacogenomic Active Clinical Decision Support
Actionable pharmacogenomic (PGx) information is growing exponentially with lowering costs of sequencing technologies, yet the best means to disseminate such data to physicians remains unclear. One method involves alerts ... -
Predicting Cancer Outcome with Multispectral Tumor Tissue Images
Tumor tissue slides have been used by clinicians to assess cancer patient’s condition and indicate prognosis. Several recent studies have suggested that distribution of important immunological biomarkers on tumor tissue ... -
Predictive Approaches for Acute Adverse Events in Electronic Health Records
Medical errors have been cited as the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2013. Failure to rescue (FTR) is a subtype of medical errors and refers to the loss of an opportunity to save a patient’s life after ... -
A Proof of Concept Imaging System for Automated Cervical Cancer Screening in Peru
(2013-07-25)Cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer in women around the world and affects half a million women per year. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 275,000 women die every year, and 80% to 85% of ... -
Qualitative Assessment of Hot Debriefs for Code Teams at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Children’s Hospital recently implemented ‘hot debriefs’ for code teams that respond to cardiac or respiratory resuscitation code events. Hot debriefs are meetings immediately after the code event where the code ... -
Reconfiguring the Everyday: Understanding, Designing, and Supporting Chronic Illness Management
From taking medications at the right time to emotionally dealing with their symptoms, patients who have a chronic illness must manage many facets of their illness. Today, patients often utilize different types of general-purpose ... -
Reproducibility in human cognitive neuroimaging: a community-driven data sharing framework for provenance information integration and interoperability
Access to primary data and the provenance of derived data are increasingly recognized as an essential aspect of reproducibility in biomedical research. While productive data sharing has become the norm in some biomedical ... -
RNA-seq generates new insights into Leishmania differentiation
Leishmania donovani, an intracellular parasitic trypanosomatid, causes kala-azar, a fatal form of visceral leishmaniasis in humans. Infection occurs through a cycle whereby parasites (promastigote stage) living in the ... -
Secondary Usage of Electronic Health Record Data for Patient-Specific Modeling
Translational research has become an important bridge that moves findings from basic science research to patients' bedside and to the clinical community. Unfortunately, this notion of translational research seems to be ... -
Secondary Use of Electronic Clinical Data: Barriers, Facilitators and a Proposed Solution
(2013-02-25)The increasing adoption of electronic medical records is producing a massive accumulation of routinelly collected electronic clinical data (ECD). This data can be used not only for direct patient care but for secondary ... -
Supporting collaborative clinical trial protocol writing through an annotation design
(2005)Clinical trial protocols are important documents that guide clinical research. Modern protocol development requires collective expertise from a group of Loosely-Coupled protocol writers, who work across distances and time ... -
Supporting collaborative goal-setting for hospitalized adolescent patients
Collaborative goal-setting is an effective way to encourage patient engagement and facilitate patient-provider communication. However, few studies have explored how hospitalized patients understand and use collaborative ... -
Supporting Hospitalized Patients through AI Technologies
Involving hospitalized patients in their care has been shown to be valuable in terms of achieving better health outcomes for them. Therefore, hospitalized patients are encouraged to actively engage in their own care, ... -
The Synthetic Biology Open Language a data exchange standard for biological engineering
(2013-02-25)Synthetic biology is the emerging research and engineering field concerned with the design and construction of new biological functions and systems. Synthetic biologists are engineering organisms to solve outstanding ... -
Temporal Data Mining in Electronic Medical Records from Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2014-02-24)Every 25 seconds someone in the US has a cardiac event and one person per minute will die from it. ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI), non ST-elevated myocardial infarction and unstable angina are caused by ischemia ... -
Text Mining with Deep Learning for Secondary Use In Radiology
For more than a decade, electronic health records (EHR) have been used extensively in biomedical research. However, structured data, such as diagnoses and procedural codes do not necessarily capture the most precise medical ... -
The Problem of Time: Addressing challenges in spatio-temporal data integration
Across scientific disciplines, an ever-growing proportion of data can be effectively described in spatial terms. As researchers have become comfortable with techniques for dealing with spatial data, the next progression ...