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Consumer health informatics: new services, roles, and responsibilities
Wetter T., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 417 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319195-89-6)
This is a valuable and welcome book. Unlike many current volumes that are multi-authored and lack coherence, the entire book was written by a single author, a German who has spent considerable time teaching and visiting in the US. The ...
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Mental health practice in a digital world: a clinicians guide
Dewan N., Luo J., Lorenzi N., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 228 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319141-08-4)
This book fills a useful and relatively empty niche, discussing broadly the use of computer technology in mental health. There is a library full of books on medical informatics, but very little attention has been placed specifically on...
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Oct 27 2015 |
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Usability evaluation of laboratory and radiology information systems integrated into a hospital information system
Nabovati E., Vakili-Arki H., Eslami S., Khajouei R. Journal of Medical Systems 38(4): 1-7, 2014. Type: Article
Physicians often complain about the clumsiness and poor usability of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. This complaint is often portrayed by vendors as a resistance to change and thus dismissed. After all, “usability&am...
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Jul 13 2015 |
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Challenges and opportunities in health care management
Gurtner S., Soyez K., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 393 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319121-77-2)
This multi-authored collection of short chapters discusses the impact and potential of current information technology on the delivery of healthcare and on doctor-patient relations. Unlike many such collections, this book offers a coher...
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Mar 18 2015 |
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Boundary-object trimming: on the invisibility of medical secretaries’ care of records in healthcare infrastructures
Bossen C., Jensen L., Udsen F. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 23(1): 75-110, 2014. Type: Article
This interesting paper looks at a group that often plays a key role in the successful implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, but whose role is understudied and underappreciated....
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Nov 14 2014 |
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Past and next 10 years of medical informatics
Ückert F., Ammenwerth E., Dujat C., Grant A., Haux R., Hein A., Hochlehnert A., Knaup-Gregori P., Kulikowski C., Mantas J., Maojo V., Marschollek M., Moura L., Plischke M., Röhrig R., Stausberg J., Takabayashi K., Winter A., Wolf K., Hasman A. Journal of Medical Systems 38(7): 1-7, 2014. Type: Article
This paper represents an interesting concept. A group of predominantly German experts in informatics convened in 2013 to reassess a document published in 2002 [1] that attempted to predict what the provision of healthcare would look li...
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Oct 13 2014 |
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Understanding the nature of information seeking behavior in critical care: implications for the design of health information technology
Kannampallil T., Franklin A., Mishra R., Almoosa K., Cohen T., Patel V. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 57(1): 21-29, 2013. Type: Article
Under the stimulus of federal incentive funding, hospitals have rapidly moved to electronic medical records (EMRs). Hence, this study of how physicians in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting seek information from EMRs and/or paper cha...
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Aug 26 2014 |
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Machine learning in healthcare informatics
Dua S., Acharya U., Dua P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2014. 410 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642400-16-2)
It is difficult to say who should read this book. Machine learning is never really defined or discussed in any meaningful way; there is just an enumeration of the different forms. It is thus of little use to someone hoping to get an ov...
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May 1 2014 |
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 Workarounds in the use of IS in healthcare: a case study of an electronic medication administration system
Yang Z., Ng B., Kankanhalli A., Luen Yip J. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 70(1): 43-65, 2012. Type: Article
With the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), the US government has poured billions of dollars into encouraging doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)...
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Dec 20 2011 |
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Temporal information systems in medicine
Combi C., Keravnou-Papailiou E., Shahar Y., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 376 pp. Type: Book (978-1-441965-42-4)
Time is a critical dimension in medicine. The temporal sequence in which symptoms develop is often the key to correct diagnosis. Also, illnesses play out over time, and the response to treatment must be assessed as time passes. Thus, t...
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Sep 22 2010 |
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