Managing change: analysis of a hypothetical case.
Author(s): Ash, J S, Anderson, J G, Gorman, P N, Zielstorff, R D, Norcross, N, Pettit, J, Yao, P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070125
Author(s): Ash, J S, Anderson, J G, Gorman, P N, Zielstorff, R D, Norcross, N, Pettit, J, Yao, P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070125
GeneClinics is an online genetic information resource consisting of descriptions of specific inherited disorders ("disease profiles") as well as information on the role of genetic testing in the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of patients with these inherited conditions. GeneClinics is intended to promote the use of genetic services in medical care and personal decision making by providing health care practitioners and patients with information on genetic testing for specific [...]
Author(s): Tarczy-Hornoch, P, Shannon, P, Baskin, P, Espeseth, M, Pagon, R A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070267
During the creation of a university digital library and press intended to serve as a medical reference and education tool for health care providers and their patients, six distinct and complex digital publishing challenges were encountered. Over nine years, through a multidisciplinary approach, solutions were devised to the challenges of digital content ownership, management, mirroring, translation, interactions with users, and archiving. The result is a unique, author-owned, internationally mirrored, university [...]
Author(s): D'Alessandro, M P, Galvin, J R, Colbert, S I, D'Alessandro, D M, Choi, T A, Aker, B D, Carlson, W S, Pelzer, G D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070246
Information economics offers insights into the dynamics of information across networked systems like the Internet. An information marketplace is different from other marketplaces because an information good is not actually consumed and can be reproduced and distributed at almost no cost. For information producers to remain profitable, they will need to minimize their exposure to competition. For example, information can be sold by charging site access rather than information access [...]
Author(s): Coiera, E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070215
Author(s): Braude, R M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070208
To evaluate the relative effectiveness of computer and manual reminder systems on the implementation of a clinical practice guideline.
Author(s): Cannon, D S, Allen, S N
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070196
While the use of multimedia methods in medical education and decision support can facilitate learning, it also has certain hazards. One potential hazard is the inadvertent triggering of racial and gender bias by the appearance of actors or patients in presentations. The authors hypothesized that race and gender affect preferences. To explore this issue they studied the effects of actors' race and gender on preference ratings for health states that [...]
Author(s): Lenert, L A, Ziegler, J, Lee, T, Unfred, C, Mahmoud, R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070177
Citation of scientific materials published on the Internet is often cumbersome because of unwieldy uniform resource locators (URLs). The authors describe a format for URLs that simplifies citation of scholarly materials. Its use depends on a simple HTML device, the "refresh page." Uniform citation would follow this format: [Author I. Title of article. http:// domain/year/month-day(e#).html]. The HTML code for such a page is: (HTML) (head) (meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL= http://Actual-URL/ [...]
Author(s): DiCarlo, J V, Pastor, X, Markovitz, B P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070149
The vision of integrating information-from a variety of sources, into the way people work, to improve decisions and process-is one of the cornerstones of biomedical informatics. Thoughts on how this vision might be realized have evolved as improvements in information and communication technologies, together with discoveries in biomedical informatics, and have changed the art of the possible. This review identified three distinct generations of "integration" projects. First-generation projects create a [...]
Author(s): Stead, W W, Miller, R A, Musen, M A, Hersh, W R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070135
Biomedical publishing stands at a crossroads. The traditional print, peer-reviewed, subscription journal has served science well but is now being called into question. Because of spiraling print journal costs and the worldwide acceptance of the Internet as a valid publication medium, there is a compelling opportunity to re-examine our current paradigm and future options. This report illustrates the conflicts and restrictions inherent in the current publishing model and examines how [...]
Author(s): Markovitz, B P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070222