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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Electronic Medical Records (EMR)"”.
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Factors Associated with Successful Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Implementation in Kenya
Background: Implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) remains a relatively recent development in response to emerging needs to manage large volumes of data that are often associated with longitudinal care. Kenya’s HIV program created a large demand for responsive data management systems …
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
… health information technology (HIT), including electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Hospitals have responded by increasing the implementation and utilization of these technologies. Numerous studies have analyzed the impact of increased EMR and the results have …
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SPINE: An infrastructure for secure access and sharing of health data
The sharing of medical data, especially in electronic form, is becoming increasingly commonplace. Throughout the years, we have found people sharing this data using a bevy of different channels including email, USB thumb drives, or registered postage. These methods of information flow are …
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Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian supported by distributed data storage
Electronic medical records (EMR) have the advantage of being easy to modify, organize, and distribute and would give healthcare providers a more complete patient history. The ideal EMR system should maintain records that are easily transferable and are administered and owned by the patient. One …
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A Core Reference Hierarchical Primitive Ontology for Electronic Medical Records Semantics Interoperability
<p>Currently, electronic medical records (EMR) cannot be exchanged among hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, and insurance providers or made available to patients outside of local networks. Hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, and insurance provider legacy databases can share medical data …
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A novel approach to protecting mobile healthcare applications in mobile cloud
… noting, a dramatic increase in the number of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) being created along with an increase in individual’s usage of technology, including mobile devices, to access their EMR. Because of the importance of keeping medical records secure due to Health Insurance Portability …
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INCORPORATING EMR AND GENOMIC DATA USING NLP AND MACHINE LEARNING TO REFINE CANCER TREATMENT
Electronic medical records (EMR) have collected vast amounts of clinical data, including genomic testing results. In contrast to numerical data, majority of EMR are unstructured free text and not easy to be processed by computers. In this study, we explored how natural language processing (NLP) and …
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Newborn Kangaroo Care Immediately after Cesarean Birth
… the operating room for delivery. CNL to review electronic medical records (EMR) to evaluate if skin-to-skin is completed in less than ten minutes and is appropriately documented.</p> <p><em>Results:</em> After education to 86% of the labor and delivery staff nurses, a review of the EMRs for all …
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Body Composition Assessment Results And Predicting Injury Patterns In Collegiate Musicians
… seasons. Data on injuries were compiled from the electronic medical records (EMR) system kept by the athletic trainer. Prior to getting a DXA scan, subjects were weighed on a Tanita scale to determine initial body weight. Then subjects were scanned by the DXA to gather body composition data. …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… tool in which CNL students were able to review electronic medical records (EMR) of 100 patients on five different units. Furthermore, CNL students assessed knowledge of sepsis through a questionnaire.</p> <p>Results showed that nurses felt that vitals signs were reported in a timely manner 50% …
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Empirical Investigation of the Factors Influencing Data Completeness in Electronic Medical Records
Recent advances in electronic medical records (EMR) in healthcare highlight the role of high-quality data, because poor data quality can destabilise clinical decision-making that in turn may impact on the quality of care. Data completeness as an essential dimension of data quality has been the …
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DEMENTIA IN ELDERLY: PREDICTING AND PREVENTING RISK
… validate a late-life dementia risk index using EMR database to predict the risk of developing dementia in elderly population. (2) To examine comparative effectiveness of antidepressants classes on risk of dementia in elderly with depression. Methods: The retrospective cohort study was conducted …
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How nurses perceive the impact of health IT applications on their performance and satisfaction: Examining the organizational, social, and personal factors
… an appropriate solution to integrate and record medical data and provide complete access of patients’ information. However, the effectiveness of these technologies depends on their successful implementation and adaptation. This study addresses the impact of result observability, autonomy, …
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Can we predict when to start renal replacement therapy in chronic kidney disease patient by using 6 months clinical data?
… centers. METHODS: The data were derived from the electronic medical records (EMR) at Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, South Korea from October 1997 to September 2012. We included patients who were diagnosed with CKD (eGFR <60 mL·min–1·1.73 m–2 for ≥3 months) and followed up for at least 6 months. …
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Using Dooyeweerd's aspects to understand down to earth issues in use of medical records
This research is about experience of using electronic medical records (EMR). Chapter 1introduces and justifies the main research question “How can Down To Earth issues that areimportant in uses of EMR be studied by using Dooyeweerd's aspects?” Down To Earth (DTE) issues are those meaningful in …
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Physician’s Resistance to EHR Post Successful Organizational Adoption: Dual Factors Investigative Study
<p>The introduction of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) has drastically improved the quality of health care, streamlined the processing of its tasks, and enhanced the retention of patient data for the hospitals of today. This research is a response to a call for an investigation of the reasons or …
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A Non-Parametric Framework for Value-Based Individualized Treatment Rule Estimation
… controlled trial (RCT) and observational electronic medical records (EMR) sources. The second project optimizes an efficacious outcome under a risk constraint by introducing a tuning parameter that penalizes rules with excess expected risk relative to expected efficacy. Again, a simulation …
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Military Sexual Trauma Exposure and Heart Rate Variability Outcomes in Female Veterans
… reporting non-exposure. Methods and Procedures: Electronic medical records (EMR) containing Holter and electrocardiogram (ECG) tracings of female veterans 21 to 86 years of age examined from January 2007 through December 2010 at a Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center were used for this historical …
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Gap Between Practices of Evidence-based Medicine and Personalized Medicine: A Barrier in Learning
… impact of these barriers on the learning of the medical house-staff. The following research questions were asked: 1) What barriers are causing the gap between EBM and PM from the perspective of bedside clinicians? 2) What barriers are impacting the learning of the medical house-staff? Methods: …
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ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN PREDICTION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS
… learning (ML) models in the prediction of medical conditions is to accurately predict (classify) the occurrence of a disease, or therapy. Many ML models, traditional and deep, have been utilized for the prediction of disease diagnosis, or prediction of the most optimal therapeutic approach. …
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