Commentary on G. Octo Barnett's Report to the Computer Research Study Section.
Author(s): Lindberg, Donald A B
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2022
Author(s): Lindberg, Donald A B
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2022
Asthma is a common condition associated with significant patient morbidity and health care costs. Although widely accepted evidence-based guidelines for asthma management exist, unnecessary variation in patient care remains. Application of biomedical informatics techniques is one potential way to improve care for asthmatic patients. We performed a systematic literature review to identify computerized applications for clinical asthma care. Studies were evaluated for their clinical domain, developmental stage and study design [...]
Author(s): Sanders, David L, Aronsky, Dominik
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2039
There is a critical gap in our nation's ability to accurately measure and manage the quality of medical care. A robust healthcare quality information system (HQIS) has the potential to address this deficiency through the capture, codification, and analysis of information about patient treatments and related outcomes. Because non-technical issues often present the greatest challenges, this paper provides an overview of these socio-technical issues in building a successful HQIS, including [...]
Author(s): Niland, Joyce C, Rouse, Layla, Stahl, Douglas C
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2050
The authors developed and evaluated a rating scale, the Attitudes toward Handheld Decision Support Software Scale (H-DSS), to assess physician attitudes about handheld decision support systems.
Author(s): Ray, Midge N, Houston, Thomas K, Yu, Feliciano B, Menachemi, Nir, Maisiak, Richard S, Allison, Jeroan J, Berner, Eta S
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2096
The present study described an open source application, ResourceLog, that allows website administrators to record and analyze the usage of online resources. The application includes four components: logging, data mining, administrative interface, and back-end database. The logging component is embedded in the host website. It extracts and streamlines information about the Web visitors, the scripts, and dynamic parameters from each page request. The data mining component runs as a set [...]
Author(s): Liu, Nian, Marenco, Luis, Miller, Perry L
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2013
The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Preparedness initiative strives to implement, on an accelerated pace, a consistent national network of information systems that will support public health in being prepared for public health emergencies. Using the principles and practices of the broader PHIN initiative, PHIN Preparedness concentrates in the short term on ensuring that all public health jurisdictions have, or have access to, systems to accomplish known preparedness functions. The [...]
Author(s): Loonsk, John W, McGarvey, Sunanda R, Conn, Laura A, Johnson, Jennifer
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1815
Computerized drug prescribing alerts can improve patient safety, but are often overridden because of poor specificity and alert overload. Our objective was to improve clinician acceptance of drug alerts by designing a selective set of drug alerts for the ambulatory care setting and minimizing workflow disruptions by designating only critical to high-severity alerts to be interruptive to clinician workflow. The alerts were presented to clinicians using computerized prescribing within an [...]
Author(s): Shah, Nidhi R, Seger, Andrew C, Seger, Diane L, Fiskio, Julie M, Kuperman, Gilad J, Blumenfeld, Barry, Recklet, Elaine G, Bates, David W, Gandhi, Tejal K
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1868
Author(s): Barnett, G Octo
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2009
To estimate the coverage provided by SNOMED CT for clinical research concepts represented by the items on case report forms (CRFs), as well as the semantic nature of those concepts relevant to post-coordination methods.
Author(s): Richesson, Rachel L, Andrews, James E, Krischer, Jeffrey P
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2093
Physician leadership is a critical success factor for health information technology initiatives, but best practices for structuring the role and skills required for such leadership remain undefined. The authors conducted structured interviews with five physician information technology leaders, or Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs), at health systems that broadly used health information technology. The study aimed to identify the individual skills and organizational structure necessary for a CMIO to be [...]
Author(s): Leviss, Jonathan, Kremsdorf, Richard, Mohaideen, Mariam F
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2097