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Adoption of clinical decision support (CDS) tools by clinicians is often limited by workflow barriers. We sought to assess characteristics associated with clinician use of an electronic health record-embedded clinical decision support system (CDSS).

The aim of this systematic review is to synthesize research studies involving the use of smart watch devices for healthcare.

Standardizing nursing handoffs at shift change is recommended to improve communication, with electronic tools as the primary approach. However, nurses continue to rely on personally created paper-based cognitive artifacts - their "paper brains" - to support handoffs, indicating a deficiency in available electronic versions.

The metadata reflecting the location of the infected host (LOIH) of virus sequences in GenBank often lacks specificity. This work seeks to enhance this metadata by extracting more specific geographic information from related full-text articles and mapping them to their latitude/longitudes using knowledge derived from external geographical databases.

We sought to assess the potential of a widely available source of electronic medication data to prevent medication history errors and resultant inpatient order errors.

The use of risk prediction models grows as electronic medical records become widely available. Here, we develop and validate a model to identify individuals at increased risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) by analyzing blood counts, age, and sex, then determine the model's value when used to supplement conventional screening.

A software tool is developed to facilitate data entry and to monitor research projects in under-resourced countries in real-time.

To demonstrate use of the electronic health record (EHR) for health insurance surveillance and identify factors associated with lack of coverage.

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are revolutionizing health-related research. One key issue for study quality is the accurate identification of patients with the condition of interest. Information in EMRs can be entered as structured codes or unstructured free text. The majority of research studies have used only coded parts of EMRs for case-detection, which may bias findings, miss cases, and reduce study quality. This review examines whether incorporating information from text [...]

A fundamental challenge in the field of clinical decision support is to determine what characteristics of systems make them effective in supporting particular types of clinical decisions. However, we lack such a theory of decision support itself and a model to describe clinical decisions and the systems to support them. This article outlines such a framework. We present a two-stream model of information flow within clinical decision-support systems (CDSSs): reasoning [...]