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To test the effect of diagnosis on training an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict length of stay (LOS) for psychiatric patients involuntarily admitted to a state hospital.

To measure the attitudes of physicians and nurses who use the Health Evaluation through Logical Processing (HELP) clinical information system.

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.

Development of a general natural-language processor that identifies clinical information in narrative reports and maps that information into a structured representation containing clinical terms.

The introduction by the Health Care Financing Administration, in 1993, of separate conversion factors for "medical" and "surgical" services to be used in calculating Medicare charges would ordinarily necessitate the use of year-specific software source code. By designing the system to utilize macro-substitution of the year in the names of Current Procedural Terminology for Physicians Code databases, database fields, and system variables, it is possible to calculate Medicare charges without [...]

Assess the performance of the SAPHIRE automated information retrieval system.