President's column: two important decisions, one clear direction..
Author(s): Fickenscher, Kevin M
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001225
Author(s): Fickenscher, Kevin M
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001225
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates one of the largest nationwide healthcare systems and is increasing use of internet technology, including development of an online personal health record system called My HealtheVet. This study examined internet use among veterans in general and particularly use of online health information among VA patients and specifically mental health service users.
Author(s): Tsai, Jack, Rosenheck, Robert A
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000971
Accurate and informed prescribing is essential to ensure the safe and effective use of medications in pediatric patients. Computerized clinical decision support (CCDS) functionalities have been embedded into computerized physician order entry systems with the aim of ensuring accurate and informed medication prescribing. Owing to a lack of comprehensive analysis of the existing literature, this review was undertaken to analyze the effect of CCDS implementation on medication prescribing and use [...]
Author(s): Stultz, Jeremy S, Nahata, Milap C
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000798
The AMIA Public Health Informatics 2011 Conference brought together members of the public health and health informatics communities to revisit the national agenda developed at the AMIA Spring Congress in 2001, assess the progress that has been made in the past decade, and develop recommendations to further guide the field. Participants met in five discussion tracks: technical framework; research and evaluation; ethics; education, professional training, and workforce development; and sustainability [...]
Author(s): Massoudi, Barbara L, Goodman, Kenneth W, Gotham, Ivan J, Holmes, John H, Lang, Lisa, Miner, Kathleen, Potenziani, David D, Richards, Janise, Turner, Anne M, Fu, Paul C
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000507
Semantic similarity analysis facilitates automated semantic explanations of biological and clinical data annotated by biomedical ontologies. Gene ontology (GO) has become one of the most important biomedical ontologies with a set of controlled vocabularies, providing rich semantic annotations for genes and molecular phenotypes for diseases. Current methods for measuring GO semantic similarities are limited to considering only the ancestor terms while neglecting the descendants. One can find many GO term [...]
Author(s): Bien, Sang Jay, Park, Chan Hee, Shim, Hae Jin, Yang, Woongcheol, Kim, Jihun, Kim, Ju Han
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000659
In parts of the developing world traditionally modeled healthcare systems do not adequately meet the needs of the populace. This can be due to imbalances in both supply and demand--there may be a lack of sufficient healthcare and the population most at need may be unable or unwilling to take advantage of it. Home-based care has emerged as a possible mechanism to bring healthcare to the populace in a cost-effective [...]
Author(s): Rajput, Zeshan A, Mbugua, Samuel, Amadi, David, Chepngeno, Viola, Saleem, Jason J, Anokwa, Yaw, Hartung, Carl, Borriello, Gaetano, Mamlin, Burke W, Ndege, Samson K, Were, Martin C
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000476
The fifth i2b2/VA Workshop on Natural Language Processing Challenges for Clinical Records conducted a systematic review on resolution of noun phrase coreference in medical records. Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) and the Veterans Affair (VA) Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research (CHIR) partnered to organize the coreference challenge. They provided the research community with two corpora of medical records for the development and evaluation of the coreference resolution [...]
Author(s): Uzuner, Ozlem, Bodnari, Andreea, Shen, Shuying, Forbush, Tyler, Pestian, John, South, Brett R
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000784
Advances in surveillance science have supported public health agencies in tracking and responding to disease outbreaks. Increasingly, epidemiologists have been tasked with interpreting multiple streams of heterogeneous data arising from varied surveillance systems. As a result public health personnel have experienced an overload of plots and charts as information visualization techniques have not kept pace with the rapid expansion in data availability. This study sought to advance the science of [...]
Author(s): Gesteland, Per Hans, Livnat, Yarden, Galli, Nathan, Samore, Matthew H, Gundlapalli, Adi V
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000486
To assess evidence of the impact of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) on clinicians' work practices in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Author(s): Hains, Isla M, Georgiou, Andrew, Westbrook, Johanna I
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000422
Although trait-associated genes identified as complex versus single-gene inheritance differ substantially in odds ratio, the authors nonetheless posit that their mechanistic concordance can reveal fundamental properties of the genetic architecture, allowing the automated interpretation of unique polymorphisms within a personal genome.
Author(s): Regan, Kelly, Wang, Kanix, Doughty, Emily, Li, Haiquan, Li, Jianrong, Lee, Younghee, Kann, Maricel G, Lussier, Yves A
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000656