Author(s): Stead, William W
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1523
Author(s): Stead, William W
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1523
This report describes an innovative training program designed to foster entrepreneurship and professionalism in students interested in the field of medical informatics. The course was developed through a private-public interinstitutional collaboration involving four academic institutions, one private firm specializing in health care information management systems, and a philanthropic organization. The program challenged students to serve in multiple roles on multidisciplinary teams and develop an innovative hand-held solution for drug information [...]
Author(s): Carroll, Cathryn A, Rychlewski, Walt, Teat, Marty, Clawson, Darrin
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1463
To describe resources clinicians use when they prescribe antimicrobials, the authors surveyed prescribers by telephone within hours (median 2.9) after they ordered one or more antimicrobials for a patient. Among 157 prescribers, 87 (55%) used one or more external resources to aid in decisions about their order. The other 70 (45%) used only their own knowledge and experience. Fifty-nine (38%) consulted another person. Fifty-four (34%) used a print, computer, or [...]
Author(s): Sellman, Jonathan S, Decarolis, Douglas, Schullo-Feulner, Anne, Nelson, David B, Filice, Gregory A
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1493
Computerized physician documentation (CPD) has been implemented throughout the nation's Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) and is likely to increasingly replace handwritten documentation in other institutions. The use of this technology may affect educational and clinical activities, yet little has been reported in this regard. The authors conducted a qualitative study to determine the perceived impacts of CPD among faculty and housestaff in a VAMC.
Author(s): Embi, Peter J, Yackel, Thomas R, Logan, Judith R, Bowen, Judith L, Cooney, Thomas G, Gorman, Paul N
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1525
This study quantified the ease of use for patients and providers of a microcomputer-based, computer-assisted interview (CAI) system for the serial collection of the American College of Rheumatology Patient Assessment (ACRPA) questionnaire in routine outpatient clinical care in an urban rheumatology clinic.
Author(s): Williams, Carl A, Templin, Thomas, Mosley-Williams, Angelia D
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1527
Author(s): McDonald, Clement J, Overhage, J Marc, Mamlin, Burke W, Dexter, Paul D, Tierney, William M
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1488
In 2002-2003, the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) undertook a study of the future of informatics training. This project capitalized on the rapidly expanding interest in the role of computation in basic biological research, well characterized in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) report. The defining activity of the project was the three-day 2002 Annual Symposium of the College. A committee, comprised [...]
Author(s): Friedman, Charles P, Altman, Russ B, Kohane, Isaac S, McCormick, Kathleen A, Miller, Perry L, Ozbolt, Judy G, Shortliffe, Edward H, Stormo, Gary D, Szczepaniak, M Cleat, Tuck, David, Williamson, Jeffrey, ,
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1520
There is an abundance of health-related information online, and millions of consumers search for such information. Spell checking is of crucial importance in returning pertinent results, so the authors propose a technique for increasing the effectiveness of spell-checking tools used for health-related information retrieval.
Author(s): Crowell, Jonathan, Zeng, Qing, Ngo, Long, Lacroix, Eve-Marie
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1474
Since 1999, the Nursing Terminology Summits have promoted the development, evaluation, and use of reference terminology for nursing and its integration into comprehensive health care data standards. The use of such standards to represent nursing knowledge, terminology, processes, and information in electronic health records will enhance continuity of care, decision support, and the exchange of comparable patient information. As part of this activity, working groups at the 2001, 2002, and [...]
Author(s): Goossen, William T F, Ozbolt, Judy G, Coenen, Amy, Park, Hyeoun-Ae, Mead, Charles, Ehnfors, Margareta, Marin, Heimar F
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1085