CliniWeb: Managing clinical information on the World-Wide-Web.
Author(s): Thirion, B, Darmoni, S J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040071
Author(s): Thirion, B, Darmoni, S J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040071
The growing public interest in health and wellness information stems from many sources, including social changes related to consumers' rights and women's health movements, and economic changes brought about by the managed health care revolution. Public, hospital, and medical center libraries have been ill-equipped to meet the increasing need for consumer-oriented materials, even though a few notable programs have been established. The "Information Superhighway" could be an effective tool for [...]
Author(s): Morris, T A, Guard, J R, Marine, S A, Schick, L, Haag, D, Tsipis, G, Kaya, B, Shoemaker, S
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040006
Good communication is vital in health care, both among health care professionals, and between health care professionals and their patients. And well-written documents, describing and/or explaining the information in structured databases may be easier to comprehend, more edifying, and even more convincing than the structured data, even when presented in tabular or graphic form. Documents may be automatically generated from structured data, using techniques from the field of natural language [...]
Author(s): Cawsey, A J, Webber, B L, Jones, R B
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040473
Telephone-Linked Care (TLC) technology has been developed and applied as an alternative to and a supplement for office visits as a means to deliver ambulatory care. TLC is used to monitor patients with chronic diseases, counsel patients on important health behaviors, and provide information and support to home caregivers of patients with disabling conditions. TLC speaks to patients over the telephone in their homes using computer-controlled digitized human speech. Patients [...]
Author(s): Friedman, R H, Stollerman, J E, Mahoney, D M, Rozenblyum, L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040413
The authors provide a survey of how images are used in radiation therapy to improve the precision of radiation therapy plans, and delivery of radiation treatment. In contrast to diagnostic radiology, where the focus is on interpretation of the images to decide if disease is present, radiation therapy quantifies the extent of the region to be treated, and relates it to the proposed treatment using a quantitative modeling system called [...]
Author(s): Kalet, I J, Austin-Seymour, M M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040327
Author(s): Kulikowski, C A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.0040252
A national public and private "grand challenge" initiative should be undertaken to assure the American public that the telecommunications and computing revolutions improve health care, health education, and biomedical and health services research, and secure accountability for cost, quality, and access. The initiative should focus on meeting the needs of the patient and society at large. It needs to be a national vision, but it also ought to have regional [...]
Author(s): Detmer, D E
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Author(s): Braude, R M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040150
Author(s): Masys, D R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040069
In March of 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences issued the report, "For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information." Concluding that the current practices at the majority of health care facilities in the United States are insufficient, the Council delineated both technical and organizational approaches to protecting electronic health information. The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently implemented a proof-of-concept, Web-based, cross-institutional medical record [...]
Author(s): Halamka, J D, Szolovits, P, Rind, D, Safran, C
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040458