Consumer informatics in chronic illness.
To explore the informatic requirements in the home care of chronically ill patients.
Author(s): Tetzlaff, L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040285
To explore the informatic requirements in the home care of chronically ill patients.
Author(s): Tetzlaff, L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040285
Author(s): Hammond, W E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040254
Information contained in medical images differs considerably from that residing in alphanumeric format. The difference can be attributed to four characteristics: (1) the semantics of medical knowledge extractable from images is imprecise; (2) image information contains form and spatial data, which are not expressible in conventional language; (3) a large part of image information is geometric; (4) diagnostic inferences derived from images rest on an incomplete, continuously evolving model of [...]
Author(s): Tagare, H D, Jaffe, C C, Duncan, J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040184
The importance of demonstrating the effect of integrating electronic medical records into clinical practice, and methods for conducting the studies necessary to do so, are presented as a model that may be applicable to other aspects of the Integrated Advanced Information Management System (IAIMS). Integrated electronic medical record (EMR) systems offer the prospect of both improving the quality of health care by reducing variation in processes and outcomes and lowering [...]
Author(s): Tierney, W M, Overhage, J M, McDonald, C J
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Author(s): Greenes, R A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040155
Author(s): Thirion, B, Darmoni, S J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040071
The growing public interest in health and wellness information stems from many sources, including social changes related to consumers' rights and women's health movements, and economic changes brought about by the managed health care revolution. Public, hospital, and medical center libraries have been ill-equipped to meet the increasing need for consumer-oriented materials, even though a few notable programs have been established. The "Information Superhighway" could be an effective tool for [...]
Author(s): Morris, T A, Guard, J R, Marine, S A, Schick, L, Haag, D, Tsipis, G, Kaya, B, Shoemaker, S
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040006
Good communication is vital in health care, both among health care professionals, and between health care professionals and their patients. And well-written documents, describing and/or explaining the information in structured databases may be easier to comprehend, more edifying, and even more convincing than the structured data, even when presented in tabular or graphic form. Documents may be automatically generated from structured data, using techniques from the field of natural language [...]
Author(s): Cawsey, A J, Webber, B L, Jones, R B
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040473
Telephone-Linked Care (TLC) technology has been developed and applied as an alternative to and a supplement for office visits as a means to deliver ambulatory care. TLC is used to monitor patients with chronic diseases, counsel patients on important health behaviors, and provide information and support to home caregivers of patients with disabling conditions. TLC speaks to patients over the telephone in their homes using computer-controlled digitized human speech. Patients [...]
Author(s): Friedman, R H, Stollerman, J E, Mahoney, D M, Rozenblyum, L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040413
The authors provide a survey of how images are used in radiation therapy to improve the precision of radiation therapy plans, and delivery of radiation treatment. In contrast to diagnostic radiology, where the focus is on interpretation of the images to decide if disease is present, radiation therapy quantifies the extent of the region to be treated, and relates it to the proposed treatment using a quantitative modeling system called [...]
Author(s): Kalet, I J, Austin-Seymour, M M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040327