Medical librarianship and medical informatics: a call for the disciplines to join hands to train tomorrow's leaders.
Author(s): Braude, R M
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Author(s): Braude, R M
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Develop a prototype expert system for preterm birth risk assessment of pregnant women. Normal gestation involves a term of 40 weeks, but because 8-12% of the newborns in the United States are delivered prior to 37 weeks' gestation, problems associated with prematurity continue to plague individuals, families, and the health care system.
Author(s): Woolery, L K, Grzymala-Busse, J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153433
Author(s): Kuperman, G, Bates, D W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153430
To examine the information needs of health care professionals in HIV-related clinical encounters, and to determine the suitability of existing information sources to address those needs.
Author(s): Giuse, N B, Huber, J T, Giuse, D A, Brown, C W, Bankowitz, R A, Hunt, S
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153427
A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is an electronic and ideally filmless information system for acquiring, sorting, transporting, storing, and electronically displaying medical images. PACS have developed rapidly and are in operation in a number of hospitals. Before widespread adoption of PACSs can occur, however, their cost-effectiveness must be proven. This article introduces the basic components of a PACS. The current PACS cost-analysis literature is reviewed. Some authors conclude [...]
Author(s): Becker, S H, Arenson, R L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153424
To assess the degree to which information retrieved from a biomedical database can augment personal knowledge in addressing novel problems, and how the ability to retrieve information evolves over time.
Author(s): de Bliek, R, Friedman, C P, Wildemuth, B M, Martz, J M, Twarog, R G, File, D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236168
Author(s): Gardner, R M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236165
CDC WONDER is an information management architecture designed for public health. It provides access to information and communications without the user's needing to know the location of data or communication pathways and mechanisms. CDC WONDER users have access to extractions from some 40 databases; electronic mail (e-mail); and surveillance data processing. System components include the Remote Client, the Communications Server, the Queue Managers, and Data Servers and Process Servers. The [...]
Author(s): Friede, A, Rosen, D H, Reid, J A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236162
To compare the performances of online and compact-disc (CD-ROM) versions of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE database.
Author(s): Haynes, R B, Walker, C J, McKibbon, K A, Johnston, M E, Willan, A R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236159
A general framework for representation of clinical data that provides a declarative semantics of terms and that allows developers to define explicitly the relationships among both terms and combinations of terms.
Author(s): Campbell, K E, Das, A K, Musen, M A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236154