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    Patient Engagement through Mobile Health Interventions of Diabetes: A Systematic Literature Review

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    This paper aims to review the HIMSS patient engagement framework\u27s applicability and to recognise the patient engagement features presented in current mHealth interventions for improving engagement in diabetes self-management. Scopus, Web of Science and Medline databases were searched for relevant studies. The selected studies were then analysed using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) patient engagement framework. Twenty engagement features were identified from twenty-nine studies reviewed. Half of the HIMSS patient engagement framework categories were seen in the studies. This review shows that mHealth interventions have achieved the third and fourth phases of the HIMSS patient engagement framework. In addition, this review suggests improvements in patient engagement facilitation, including integrating patient-generated data into electronic health records, collaboration access to the health records, and peer support through online community forums. Finally, the future patient engagement framework is discussed for mHealth technology

    Potential commercial uses of EOS remote sensing products

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    The instrument complement of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite system will generate data sets with potential interest to a variety of users who are now just beginning to develop geographic information systems tailored to their special applications and/or jurisdictions. Other users may be looking for a unique product that enhances competitive position. The generally distributed products from EOS will require additional value added processing to derive the unique products desired by specific users. Entrepreneurs have an opportunity to create these proprietary level 4 products from the EOS data sets. Specific instruments or collections of instruments could provide information for crop futures trading, mineral exploration, television and printed medium news products, regional and local government land management and planning, digital map directories, products for third world users, ocean fishing fleet probability of harvest forecasts, and other areas not even imagined at this time. The projected level 3 product are examined that will be available at launch from EOS instruments and commercial uses of the data after value added processing is estimated

    Applications of ISES for meteorology

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    The results are summarized from an initial assessment of the potential real-time meteorological requirements for the data from Eos systems. Eos research scientists associated with facility instruments, investigator instruments, and interdisciplinary groups with data related to meteorological support were contacted, along with those from the normal operational user and technique development groups. Two types of activities indicated the greatest need for real-time Eos data: technology transfer groups (e.g., NOAA's Forecasting System Laboratory and the DOD development laboratories), and field testing groups with airborne operations. A special concern was expressed by several non-U.S. participants who desire a direct downlink to be sure of rapid receipt of the data for their area of interest. Several potential experiments or demonstrations are recommended for ISES which include support for hurricane/typhoon forecasting, space shuttle reentry, severe weather forecasting (using microphysical cloud classification techniques), field testing, and quick reaction of instrumented aircraft to measure such events as polar stratospheric clouds and volcanic eruptions

    Developing the Quantitative Histopathology Image Ontology : A case study using the hot spot detection problem

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    Interoperability across data sets is a key challenge for quantitative histopathological imaging. There is a need for an ontology that can support effective merging of pathological image data with associated clinical and demographic data. To foster organized, cross-disciplinary, information-driven collaborations in the pathological imaging field, we propose to develop an ontology to represent imaging data and methods used in pathological imaging and analysis, and call it Quantitative Histopathological Imaging Ontology – QHIO. We apply QHIO to breast cancer hot-spot detection with the goal of enhancing reliability of detection by promoting the sharing of data between image analysts

    The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation: Transforming a Public Safety Net Delivery System to Achieve Higher Performance

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    Describes the results of the public benefit corporation's improvement initiatives -- a common clinical information system for continuity, coordination on chronic disease management, teamwork and continuous innovation, and access to appropriate care

    Association of Electronic Health Records with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in a National Sample

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    This study examined the relationship between advanced electronic health record (EHR) use in hospitals and rates of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in an inpatient setting. National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Survey are combined in the retrospective, cross-sectional analysis. A twenty percent simple random sample of the combined 2009 NIS and HIMSS datasets included a total of 1,032,905 patient cases of MRSA in 550 hospitals. Results of the propensity-adjusted logistic regression model revealed a statistically significant association between advanced EHR and MRSA, with patient cases from an advanced EHR being less likely to report a MRSA diagnosis code

    Defining and Testing EMR Usability: Principles and Proposed Methods of EMR Usability Evaluation and Rating

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    For more information about the Information Experience Laboratory, visit http://ielab.missouri.edu/Electronic medical record (EMR) adoption rates have been slower than expected in the United States, especially in comparison to other industry sectors and other developed countries. A key reason, aside from initial costs and lost productivity during EMR implementation, is lack of efficiency and usability of EMRs currently available. Achieving the healthcare reform goals of broad EMR adoption and “meaningful use” will require that efficiency and usability be effectively addressed at a fundamental level. We conducted a literature review of usability principles, especially those applicable to EMRs. The key principles identified were simplicity, naturalness, consistency, minimizing cognitive load, efficient interactions, forgiveness and feedback, effective use of language, effective information presentation, and preservation of context. Usability is often mistakenly equated with user satisfaction, which is an oversimplification. We describe methods of usability evaluation, offering several alternative methods for measuring efficiency and effectiveness, including patient safety. We provide samples of objective, repeatable and cost‐efficient test scenarios applicable to evaluating EMR usability as an adjunct to certification, and we discuss rating schema for scoring the results. (42 pages

    Uluslararası Ortak Komisyon (JCI) ve Sağlık Bilgi Yönetim Sistemleri Topluluğu (HIMSS) - Elektronik Sağlık Kaydı Benimseme Modelinin (EMRAM) metin madenciliği yöntemi ile karşılaştırmalı analizi

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    Introduction: Health service quality refers to all efforts to prevent a negative outcome in the health status of individuals. For this reason, measuring and evaluating the quality of health services is important to increase the quality of services provided. Aim: In this study, Joint Commission International’s (JCI) accepted indicator-based health service quality measurement model and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS)-Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) are discussed. Method: This research used the bag-of-words model (BoW), a text mining method. Result: As a result of the analysis, the similarity of keywords (as unigrams) used in all of the guides was found to be approximately 33%, the bigram similarity was 6% and the trigram similarity was 3%. Conclusion: The fact that the similarity between the two models is not higher can be explained by the fact that, unlike JCI, the HIMSS EMRAM model handles the quality of health services with a digitalization axis. Text mining opens up new research areas as a method for comparing quality standards with new and interesting results.Giriş: Sağlık hizmet kalitesi, bireylerin sağlık durumlarında olumsuz bir sonucun oluşmasını önlemeye yönelik tüm çabaları belirtmektedir. Bu nedenle sağlık hizmetlerinin kalitesinin ölçülmesi ve değerlendirilmesi verilen hizmetin kalitesinin artırılması açısından önemlidir. Amaç: Bu çalışmada, gösterge tabanlı sağlık hizmeti kalitesi ölçüm modeli Uluslararası Ortak Komisyon (Joint Commission International-JCI) ve Sağlık Bilgi Yönetim Sistemleri Topluluğu (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society-HIMSS)- Elektronik Sağlık Kaydı Benimseme Modeli (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model-EMRAM) ele alınmaktadır. Yöntem: Bu araştırmada, bir metin madenciliği yöntemi olan sözcük torbası modeli (bag-of-words/BoW) kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Analiz sonucunda tüm rehberlerde kullanılan anahtar sözcüklerin tek harfli sözcük (unigram) benzerliği yaklaşık %33, iki harfli sözcük (bigram) benzerliği %6 ve üç harfli sözcük (trigram) benzerliği %3 olarak bulunmuştur. Sonuç: İki model arasındaki benzerliğin fazla olmaması, JCI’dan farklı olarak HIMSS- EMRAM modelinin sağlık hizmet kalitesini dijitalleşme ekseniyle ele almasıyla açıklanabilir. Çalışmada metin madenciliği yönteminin kullanılması, kalite standartlarının yeni ve ilginç sonuçlarla karşılaştırma olanağı sağlamaktadır
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