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We aim to identify duplicate pairs of Medline citations, particularly when the documents are not identical but contain similar information.

Electronic health records (EHR) hold great promise for managing patient information in ways that improve healthcare delivery. Physicians differ, however, in their use of this health information technology (IT), and these differences are not well understood. The authors study the differences in individual physicians' EHR use patterns and identify perceptions of uncertainty as an important new variable in understanding EHR use.

A comprehensive and machine-understandable cancer drug-side effect (drug-SE) relationship knowledge base is important for in silico cancer drug target discovery, drug repurposing, and toxicity predication, and for personalized risk-benefit decisions by cancer patients. While US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug labels capture well-known cancer drug SE information, much cancer drug SE knowledge remains buried the published biomedical literature. We present a relationship extraction approach to extract cancer drug-SE pairs [...]

Annotations to physical workspaces such as signs and notes are ubiquitous. When densely annotated, work areas become communication spaces. This study aims to characterize the types and purpose of such annotations.

To describe the activities performed by people involved in clinical decision support (CDS) at leading sites.

This study assessed the perceptions and behaviors of US adults about the security of their protected health information (PHI).

To develop a decision support system to identify patients at high risk for hyperlactatemia based upon routinely measured vital signs and laboratory studies.

Errors in community medication histories increase the risk of adverse events. The objectives of this study were to estimate the extent to which access to community-based pharmacy records provided more information about prescription drug use than conventional medication histories.

High-performance computing centers (HPC) traditionally have far less restrictive privacy management policies than those encountered in healthcare. We show how an HPC can be re-engineered to accommodate clinical data while retaining its utility in computationally intensive tasks such as data mining, machine learning, and statistics. We also discuss deploying protected virtual machines. A critical planning step was to engage the university's information security operations and the information security and privacy [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator will be defining the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NWHIN) together with the proposed HealtheWay public/private partnership as a development and funding strategy. There are a number of open questions--for example, what is the best way to realize the benefits of health information exchange? How valuable are regional health information organizations in comparison with a more direct approach? What is the role [...]