Evaluate the accuracy of the detailed diagnostic reasoning of the Heart Failure Program incorporating a new mechanism to handle temporal relationships and severity constraints.
Author(s): Long, W J, Naimi, S, Criscitiello, M G
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236144
Direct computer-based physician order entry has been the subject of debate for over 20 years. Many sites have implemented systems successfully. Others have failed outright or flirted with disaster, incurring substantial delays, cost overruns, and threatened work actions. The rationale for physician order entry includes process improvement, support of cost-conscious decision making, clinical decision support, and optimization of physicians' time. Barriers to physician order entry result from the changes required [...]
Author(s): Sittig, D F, Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236142
Author(s): Gardner, R M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236140
Assess the performance of the SAPHIRE automated information retrieval system.
Author(s): Hersh, W R, Hickam, D H, Haynes, R B, McKibbon, K A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236136
Careful study of medical informatics research and library-resource projects is necessary to increase the productivity of the research and development enterprise. Medical informatics research projects can present unique problems with respect to evaluation. It is not always possible to adapt directly the evaluation methods that are commonly employed in the natural and social sciences. Problems in evaluating medical informatics projects may be overcome by formulating system development work in terms [...]
Author(s): Stead, W W, Haynes, R B, Fuller, S, Friedman, C P, Travis, L E, Beck, J R, Fenichel, C H, Chandrasekaran, B, Buchanan, B G, Abola, E E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236134