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Propuesta metodológica de intercambio electrónico de información clínica basada en estándares de telemedicina/Methodological proposal of electronic data interchange and clinical information based on telemedicine standards
El avance de las tecnologías de la información ha permitido un cambio sustancial en el desarrollo de la Salud, por lo que el uso de estándares de telemedicina como el HL7 y CEN TC 251-13606 permiten que los sistemas de información médica se comuniquen vía mensajes estandarizados facilitando el uso de los mismos. El propósito de este estudio es crear una guía metodológica de intercambio electrónico de información clínica basada en el análisis de los estándares de telemedicina HL7 y CEN TC 251- 13606 para mejorar la eficiencia de la gestión de Historias Clínicas de los pacientes. La metodología consta de 2 fases, la primera plantea el diseño e implementación del modelo de referencia de la Historia Clínica Electrónica, el mismo que define entidades necesarias en la construcción de una Historia Clínica Electrónica, en la fase 2 se define la arquitectura de la historia clínica especificando la estructura y semántica del documento mediante el lenguaje XML, el cual se utiliza en los procesos de gestión de las historias clínicas electrónicas dentro del sistema médico desarrollado. Este sistema permite control clínico a distancia facilitando la interacción médico-paciente. El sistema posee una aplicación web, una aplicación de escritorio y una plataforma hardware e- Salud. La aplicación de la metodología planteada mejora la eficiencia de la gestión de historias clínicas, puesto que el 83.32% de los médicos de la clínica consideran que se agiliza el proceso de acceso, creación e ingreso de historias clínicas y reduce recursos en el proceso de control de pacientes domiciliarios.
The advance of Information and Communication Technologies has improved Health Care in last years; by providing new ways of accessing medical information. In particular, the use of telemedicine standards such as HL7 and CENTC 251-13606 allows standard communication, integration, and retrieval of electronic health records among medical systems. This article aims to create a methodological guide for the electronic exchange of clinical information based on telemedicine standards in order to improve the efficiency of electronic health records management. The proposed methodology consists of two phases: The first one states the design and implementation of the reference model of an electronic health records, which defines entities of the electronic health record. In phase 2, this methodology describes electronic health records architecture. The architecture is defined by the structure and semantics of the document using XML. In order to test the proposed methodology, a medical system was implemented that consists of a web application, desktop application, and hardware platform e- Health. This system allows the electronic exchange of clinical information to ease patient-doctor interaction. The results show 83,32% of doctors at the clinic where the system was tested agree the proposed methodology for electronic exchange improves the efficiency of electronic health records management since it speeds up the process of creation and retrieval of an electronic health records. Moreover, the system reduces resources in the control of home patients.
Palabras clave: Telemedicina, HCE, HL7, CENTC 251-13606, e-Salud.
Keywords: Telemedicine, EHR, HL7, CENTC 251-13606, e-Health
Phase behaviour and particle-size cutoff effects in polydisperse fluids
We report a joint simulation and theoretical study of the liquid-vapor phase
behaviour of a fluid in which polydispersity in the particle size couples to
the strength of the interparticle interactions. Attention is focussed on the
case in which the particles diameters are distributed according to a fixed
Schulz form with degree of polydispersity . The coexistence
properties of this model are studied using grand canonical ensemble Monte Carlo
simulations and moment free energy calculations. We obtain the cloud and shadow
curves as well as the daughter phase density distributions and fractional
volumes along selected isothermal dilution lines. In contrast to the case of
size-{\em independent} interaction strengths (N.B. Wilding, M. Fasolo and P.
Sollich, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 121}, 6887 (2004)), the cloud and shadow curves
are found to be well separated, with the critical point lying significantly
below the cloud curve maximum. For densities below the critical value, we
observe that the phase behaviour is highly sensitive to the choice of upper
cutoff on the particle size distribution. We elucidate the origins of this
effect in terms of extremely pronounced fractionation effects and discuss the
likely appearance of new phases in the limit of very large values of the
cutoff.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figure
HEOS 1 helium observations in the solar wind
Results of alpha-particle observations performed by the European satellite HEOS 1, in the period from December 9, 1968, to April 13, 1969, and from September 6, 1969, to April 15, 1970, are presented. The average bulk velocities of protons V sub p and alpha-particles V sub alpha appear to be equal; however, due to an instrumental bias, the possibility of V sub alpha being lower than V sub p cannot be ruled out. Comparison with observations of Vela 3 and Explorer 34 satellites gives evidence of a dependence of helium abundance on the solar cycle. The problem of the stability of differences between the bulk velocities of protons and alpha-particles is investigated. The behavior of alpha-particles through interplanetary shock waves is illustrated in connection with magnetic field measurements
A monopole solution from noncommutative multi-instantons
We extend the relation between instanton and monopole solutions of the
selfduality equations in SU(2) gauge theory to noncommutative space-times.
Using this approach and starting from a noncommutative multi-instanton solution
we construct a U(2) monopole configuration which lives in 3 dimensional
ordinary space. This configuration resembles the Wu-Yang monopole and satisfies
the selfduality (Bogomol'nyi) equations for a U(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs system.Comment: 19 pages; title and abstract changed, brane interpretation corrected.
Version to appear in JHE
Enhanced transmission of slit arrays in an extremely thin metallic film
Horizontal resonances of slit arrays are studied. They can lead to an
enhanced transmission that cannot be explained using the single-mode
approximation. A new type of cavity resonance is found when the slits are
narrow for a wavelength very close to the period. It can be excited for very
low thicknesses. Optimization shows these structures could constitute
interesting monochromatic filters
Irredundant Triangular Decomposition
Triangular decomposition is a classic, widely used and well-developed way to
represent algebraic varieties with many applications. In particular, there
exist sharp degree bounds for a single triangular set in terms of intrinsic
data of the variety it represents, and powerful randomized algorithms for
computing triangular decompositions using Hensel lifting in the
zero-dimensional case and for irreducible varieties. However, in the general
case, most of the algorithms computing triangular decompositions produce
embedded components, which makes it impossible to directly apply the intrinsic
degree bounds. This, in turn, is an obstacle for efficiently applying Hensel
lifting due to the higher degrees of the output polynomials and the lower
probability of success. In this paper, we give an algorithm to compute an
irredundant triangular decomposition of an arbitrary algebraic set defined
by a set of polynomials in C[x_1, x_2, ..., x_n]. Using this irredundant
triangular decomposition, we were able to give intrinsic degree bounds for the
polynomials appearing in the triangular sets and apply Hensel lifting
techniques. Our decomposition algorithm is randomized, and we analyze the
probability of success
Equilibrium phase behavior of polydisperse hard spheres
We calculate the phase behavior of hard spheres with size polydispersity,
using accurate free energy expressions for the fluid and solid phases. Cloud
and shadow curves, which determine the onset of phase coexistence, are found
exactly by the moment free energy method, but we also compute the complete
phase diagram, taking full account of fractionation effects. In contrast to
earlier, simplified treatments we find no point of equal concentration between
fluid and solid or re-entrant melting at higher densities. Rather, the fluid
cloud curve continues to the largest polydispersity that we study (14%); from
the equilibrium phase behavior a terminal polydispersity can thus only be
defined for the solid, where we find it to be around 7%. At sufficiently large
polydispersity, fractionation into several solid phases can occur, consistent
with previous approximate calculations; we find in addition that coexistence of
several solids with a fluid phase is also possible
High-capacity wave energy conversion by multi-floats, multi-PTO, control and prediction: generalised state-space modelling with linear optimal control and arbitrary headings
Wave energy converters with capacity similar to, or greater than, wind turbines are desirable for the supply of electricity to the grid. It is shown that this may be provided by multiple floats in a hinged raft-type configuration with multimode forcing. The case analysed has 8 floats and 4 power take off (PTO) units. Analysis is based on linear diffraction-radiation modelling, validated in wave basin experiments with a smaller number of floats. Control is desirable to improve energy capture, mainly demonstrated for point absorbers, but this has not previously been applied to such a complex problem with many freedoms. The linear hydrodynamic model in a state-space form makes it possible to implement advanced control algorithms in real time. Linear non-causal optimal control (LNOC) is applied with wave force prediction from auto-regression. For the design case with zero heading, as the configuration heads naturally into the wave direction, energy capture is improved by between 21% and 83%. The energy capture is about 62% the maximum possible from idealised analyses. Off-design, non-zero headings are also analysed to indicate how energy capture can be reduced; this is again improved by control, by several times at 90 degrees heading
Teledermatology before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic
La teledermatología ha avanzado en aceptación y uso en los últimos 2 meses de confinamiento por SARS-CoV-2 más que en los últimos 20 años. Su repentina popularidad –aun entre los más escépticos– ha sido el resultado de buscar una respuesta a las necesidades de los pacientes, que se han encontrado bruscamente sin atención dermatológica presencial tanto en lo privado como en lo público. Incluso aquellos servicios que incluían la modalidad asíncrona tuvieron que generar sistemas que permitieran la atención directa (direct-to-consumer) entre el especialista y el paciente. El siguiente artículo propone algunas maneras prácticas de implementación segura para agilizar y optimizar las consultas dermatológicas, aplicables no solamente a tiempos de pandemia.The use and acceptance of teledermatology increased more in the last 2 months of the recent lockdown owing to coronavirus disease 2019 than in the preceding 20 years. This sudden popularity –even among the greatest skeptics– was driven by the need to offer solutions to patients in both public and private settings who suddenly found themselves unable to access in-person dermatological care. Even departments already offering an asynchronous, store-and-forward teledermatology service were obliged to create new systems to support direct interaction between specialists and patients (the direct-to-consumer model). This article suggests some practical ways to implement TD safely and to expedite and optimize teleconsultations; these ideas are not just applicable to a pandemic situation
Coherent State Description of the Ground State in the Tavis-Cummings Model and its Quantum Phase Transitions
Quantum phase transitions and observables of interest of the ground state in
the Tavis-Cummings model are analyzed, for any number of atoms, by using a
tensorial product of coherent states. It is found that this "trial" state
constitutes a very good approximation to the exact quantum solution, in that it
globally reproduces the expectation values of the matter and field observables.
These include the population and dipole moments of the two-level atoms and the
squeezing parameter. Agreement in the field-matter entanglement and in the
fidelity measures, of interest in quantum information theory, is also found.The
analysis is carried out in all three regions defined by the separatrix which
gives rise to the quantum phase transitions. It is argued that this agreement
is due to the gaussian structure of the probability distributions of the
constant of motion and the number of photons. The expectation values of the
ground state observables are given in analytic form, and the change of the
ground state structure of the system when the separatrix is crossed is also
studied.Comment: 38 pages, 16 figure
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