: Clinical practice guidelines are textual recommendations based on the consensus of medical experts with the aim to solve diagnostic and therapeutic problems. For more advanced us...
Lifelong electronic health records can supply valuable information for research, quality management and health politics in addition to supporting treatment of patients. Based on ex...
Walter Gall, Wilfried Grossmann, Georg Duftschmid,...
The present work aims at discovering new associations between medical concepts to be exploited as input in retrieval and indexing. Material and Methods: Association rules method is...
In a competitive health-care market, hospitals have to focus on ways to streamline their processes in order to deliver high quality care while at the same time reducing costs. To a...
Ronny Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Giorgio Leonardi, S...
: Objective: To identify factors influencing variations in clinical work in the care of patients with abdominal aortic aneurism. Method: Ethnographic observations of 26 meetings be...
In clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) the medical information is stored in a narrative way. A large part of this information occurs in a negated form. The detection of negation in...
: Supporting the process of medication selection and electronic management of prescriptions is a high priority issue in the eHealth strategies of many countries today. Procuring su...
We report from three usability evaluations of health information systems that illustrate the value of seeing usability as a context dependent property of a product. We show how the...
While the public has increasingly access to medical information, specialized medical language is often difficult for lay people to understand and there is a need to bridge the gap ...
The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to...