| Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability Standardization Program Development |
Aug-2009 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Julian M Goldman; MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON
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 | This BAA provided core program support to develop key capabilities of the Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability Program to lead the evaluation and adoption of open standards and technology for networking medical devices to support clinical solutions for improved patient safety and healthcare efficiency. Towards these goals, a medical device interoperability lab was created at CIMIT in Cambridge, MA, as a vendor-neutral, shared collaborative resource; clinical use cases demonstrating ... |
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| Information Technology: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but Further Actions Are Needed |
24-Sep-2008 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to accelerate the exchange of health information between the departments and to develop systems or capabilities that allow for full interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to use data that are exchanged) and that are compliant with federal standards. The act also established an interagency program office to ... |
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| Recommendations for Establishing Policy for Electronic Prescribing in the State of Texas: Graduate Management Project |
24-Jun-2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Fleming; Steve V Jr; GREATER SAN ANTONIO HOSPITAL COUNCIL TX
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| This study examines the issue of medication errors and viable policy for the state of Texas to address such errors. Various studies suggests over 300,000 preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) occur each year during outpatient care. With the establishment of preventable ADEs as a substantial problem, further review of medication error studies indicates that health information technology provides a means of reducing errors by 30 percent or more. Analysis of ... |
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| Implementation of an Electronic Medical Records System |
07-May-2008 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Chadwick B Fletcher; ARMY MEDICAL DEPT CENTER AND SCHOOL FORT SAM HOUSTON TX
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| Delivery of excellent primary care--central to overall medical care--demands that providers have the necessary information when they provide care. This paper argues that provider and patient information and decision support needs can be satisfied only if primary care providers use electronic medical records (EMRs). Although robust EMRs are now available, only about 5% of U.S. primary care providers use them. Recently, with only modest investments, Australia, New Zealand, and England ... |
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| How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations |
01-Feb-2008 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Jimmy Lin; Mark D Smucker; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION LAB
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| In the context of document retrieval in the biomedical domain, this paper explores the complex relationship between the quality of initial query results and the overall utility of an interactive system. We demonstrate that a content-similarity browsing tool can compensate for poor retrieval results, and that the relationship between retrieval performance and overall utility is non-linear. Arguments are advanced with user simulations, which characterize the relevance of documents that a ... |
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| Advanced Technologies in Safe and Efficient Operating Rooms |
FEB 2008 |
179 pages |
| Authors:
Adrian E. Park; MARYLAND UNIV MEDICAL CENTER BALTIMORE
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| The three major research targets of this study are (a) OR informatics, (b) simulation research, and (c) smart image. The purpose of the OR informatics program is to develop, test, and deploy technologies to collect real-time data about key tasks and process elements in clinical operating rooms. The objective of simulation research is to create a system where a user can interact with a virtual human model in cognitive simulation ... |
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| Tactical Medical Coordination System (TacMedCS) |
06 NOV 2007 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Diane Williams; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| The Tactical Medical Coordination System (TacMedCS) provides rapid casualty identification under adverse conditions, enables visibility of casualty status from the point of injury through medical treatment in higher echelons of care, maintains an electronic treatment record for the patient, utilizes non-physical-contact data transmission and storage media, and uplinks casualty information to a theater information network. Additionally, the current version of TacMedCS provides information to the corpsman in the field about ... |
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| Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer |
JUN 2007 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Clarke; GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC
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| A recent controversy in the treatment of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancers is whether an aromatase inhibitor, e.g., letrozole (LET) or TAM should be given as first line endocrine therapy. Unfortunately, response rates are lower, and response durations are shorter, on crossover than when these agents are given as first line therapies, e.g., ~40% of tumors show crossresistance to TAM or an aromatase inhibitor on crossover. Only 50% of ... |
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| Comparison of Amplification Methods to Produce Affymetrix GeneChip(Trademark) Target Material |
APR 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis Burian; Vicky White; Mark Huggins; Doris Kupfer; Dennis V. Canfield; James E. Whinnery; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OKLAHOMA CITY OK CIVIL AEROMEDICAL INST
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| Whole blood from living subjects is a convenient matrix to use as a source of RNA for microarray experiments with human subjects especially when subject material is collected at a location other than the collaborating site conducting the microarray work. Collection methods for whole blood that include stabilization of the RNA are known but suffer from issues of decreased sensitivity due to the large amount of globin RNA present from ... |
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| A Strategy to Rapidly Re-Sequence the NF1 Genomic Loci Using Microarrays and Bioinformatics for Molecular Classification of the Disease |
DEC 2006 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Sitharthan Kamalakaran; Josh Dubnau; COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB NY
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| Neurofibromatoses (NF) are disorders caused by mutations in NF1/NF2 genes and characterized by fibromatous tumors on nerves, skin, and bones. A method to rapidly and cheaply re-sequence the NF loci would greatly aid in the molecular classification of the disease by forging links between sequence variations and clinical manifestations. We propose to develop a technique to rapidly re-sequence genomic loci using microarray hybridization and bioinformatics. The NF locus is first ... |
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| The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Organization, Funding, and Congressional Issues |
19 OCT 2006 |
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| Authors:
Pamela W. Smith; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | The National Institutes of Health is the focal point for federal health research. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), it uses its $28.5 billion budget to support more than 200,000 scientists and research personnel working at over 3,100 institutions across the U.S. and abroad, as well as to conduct biomedical and behavioral research and research training at its own facilities. The agency consists of the ... |
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| BotXminer: Mining Biomedical Literature with a New Web-Based Application |
21 MAR 2006 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Uma Mudunuri; Robert Stephens; David Bruining; David Liu; Frank J. Lebeda; NATIONAL CANCER INST FREDERICK MD
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| This paper outlines botXminer, a publicly available application to search XML-formatted MEDLINE data in a complete, object-relational schema implemented in Oracle XML DB. An advantage offered by botXminer is that it can generate quantitative results with certain queries that are not feasible through the Entrez-PubMed interface. After retrieving citations associated with user-supplied search terms, MEDLINE fields (title, abstract, journal, MeSH and chemical) and terms (MeSH qualifiers and descriptors, keywords, author, ... |
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| The MiTAP System for Monitoring Reports of Disease Outbreak |
2006 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Laurie E. Damianos; Guido Zarrella; Lynette Hirschman; MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA
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| The MiTAP system was developed as an experimental prototype using human language technologies for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and other global disasters. MiTAP is designed to provide timely multi-lingual information access to analysts, medical experts, health services, and individuals involved in humanitarian assistance and relief work. Every day, thousands of articles from hundreds of global information sources are automatically captured, filtered, translated, tagged, summarized, categorized by content, and made available ... |
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| Medical Vanguard Diabetes Management Project |
SEP 2005 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Seong K. Mun; GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC
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| The Medical Vanguard Diabetes Management Project was designed to deploy an Internet based diabetes management system, MyCareTeam, into a number of existing diverse clinical environments and evaluate how such a stand-alone clinical information system can be integrated into diabetes management program. The diverse environments include the High-Risk Pregnancy Clinic at the National Naval Medical Center and Native American Communities throughout the United States. The GAO Report "Executive Guide: Measuring Performance ... |
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| Texas Consortium for the Development of Biological Sensors |
15 JUN 2005 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew Ellington; TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN
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| Statement of problem(s): (1) There is a general bottleneck in the development of biosensors for sensor platforms. We undertook to determine whether high-throughput, automated methods could be applied to the development of aptamer and other nucleic acid biosensors. (2) Biosensors typically require immobilization or other complex handling in order to signal the presence of threat agents. For example, PCR frequently requires the extraction of DNA or RNA, sandwich assays require ... |
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| Development of the Integrated Information Technology System |
JAN 2005 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
PITTSBURGH UNIV PA
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| The Integrated Medical Information Technology System (IMITS) Program is focused on implementation of advanced technology solutions that eliminate inefficiencies, increase utilization and improve quality of care for active duty forces. The work on this project has focused on the development and implementation of prototype telemedicine systems and advanced technology applications at United States Air Force bases. Significant effort has been devoted to the DITSCAP security process for the applications developed. ... |
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| Bioterrorism Preparedness for Infectious Disease |
JAN 2005 |
163 pages |
| Authors:
Lawrence Burgess; HAWAII UNIV HONOLULU
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| Bioterrorism preparedness for infectious disease (BTPID) as part of homeland defense initiatives is advancing rapidly, with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) taking the lead in mandating improved surveillance and management for States to follow, centered around 6 major focus areas with 17 critical capacities. Significant opportunities exist for new research and development of bioinformatics and telecommunications solutions for BTPID that would complement CDC led initiatives. The objectives of this ... |
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| A System Overview of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics |
15 NOV 2004 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Joe Lombardo; Rich Wojcik; Wayne Loschen; Jay Mansfield; JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV LAUREL MD APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
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| SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS: (1) ESSENCE is the first system to integrate both military and civilian health indicator data for early notification of health events. (2) ESSENCE versions are being used for public health surveillance of naturally occurring diseases as well as bioterrorist events. (3) Public health surveillance has been around since the 14th century. Recent advances in information technology and outbreak detection algorithms have advanced disease surveillance to become an ... |
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| An Evaluation of Pharmacy Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Outbreaks |
15 NOV 2004 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Yevgeniy Elbert; Shilpa Hakre; Howard Burkom; Julie Pavlin; WALTER REED ARMY INST OF RESEARCH SILVER SPRING MD
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| ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics): (1) A U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) system; (2) Designed to detect infectious disease outbreaks; (3) Serves military active duty members, their beneficiaries, and retirees; (4) Uses mainly ICD-9-CM codes from outpatient visits; (5) Delay of 1-4 days from patient visit date to data capture date by ESSENCE. |
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| Improving Medical Surveillance through Fusing Disparate Evidence |
15 NOV 2004 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey Lin; Howard Burkom; Andrew B. Feldman; Sean Murphy; Yevgeniy Elbert; Shilpa Hakre; Steven Babin; JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV LAUREL MD APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
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| ESSENCE: An Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics. MONITORING HEALTH CARE DATA: (1) ~800 military treatment facilities since Sept 2001; (2) 12 major metropolitan civilian areas. EVALUATING DATA SOURCES: (1) Civilian physician visits; (2) OTC pharmacy sales; (3) Prescription sales; (4) Nurse hotline/EMS data; (5) Absentee rate data. Developing & implementing alerting algorithms. |
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| COHORT: An Integrated Information Approach to Decision Support for Military Subpopulation Health Care |
SEP 2004 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
G. D. Reichard; Peter Demitry; Joseph Catalino; AIR FORCE MEDICAL OPERATIONS AGENCY FALLS CHURCH VA
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| Delayed recognition and response to health syndromes in the past have highlighted the critical need for real-time surveillance of the health status of forces as an enabling capability for decision makers. Real-time surveillance serves to alert health authorities and make possible rapid, appropriate, and effective responses to limit the adverse impact of occupational and operational threats to health. In support of Force Health Protection, the USAF Surgeon General has recognized ... |
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| International Research and Development in Biosensing: WTEC Panel Report |
AUG 2004 |
285 pages |
| Authors:
Jerome Schultz; Milan Mrksich; Sangeeta N. Bhatia; David J. Brady; Antonio J. Ricco; WORLD TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION CENTER INC BALTIMORE MD
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| This report reviews international research and development activities in the field of biosensing. Biosensing includes systems that incorporate a variety of means, including electrical, electronic, and photonic devices; biological materials (e.g., tissue, enzymes, nucleic acids, etc.); and chemical analysis to produce detectable signals for the monitoring or identification of biological phenomena. This is distinct from "biosensors" that employ only biological materials or mechanisms for sensing. In a broader sense, the ... |
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| Air Force Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics System, DataCap-Data Collection Module. Phase 1: Development |
JUL 2004 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher Geib; John M. Frazier; Robert S. Cook; GEO-CENTERS INC WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| Cell biology studies involving genomics, proteomics and metabolomics technologies generate large quantities of data. Unfortunately, today's research environment is encumbered by inefficient access to this vital data. Information searches are hampered by disparities on both technical and conceptual levels between individual data sources. The current trend is for data sources to exist as a series of isolated computational silos, providing a depth of data in a narrow field of research. ... |
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| Tools and Techniques for Enhanced Health Surveillance in Deployed Settings |
JUN 2004 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth L. Cox; INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK ANALYSIS BROOKSAFB TX RISK ANALYSIS DIRECTORA
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| Historically, diseases and non-battle injuries (DNBI) have had the greatest impact on mission performance. Consequently, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) continuously monitors health events in deployed troops, seeking to minimize the adverse effects of DNBI. For many years, military preventive medicine efforts focused on broad categories of endemic communicable diseases and non-battle injuries. As concerns surfaced about unexplained illnesses among Gulf War veterans and of possible disease clusters associated ... |
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| Technical Evaluation Report |
JUN 2004 |
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| Authors:
Wulf Von Restorff; NATO RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE (FRANCE)
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| The purpose of this symposium was to bring together public health, occupational health, and military health professionals to discuss the strategies and technologies available to counter existing and emerging health threats to deployed forces. The RTO Human Factors and Medicine Symposium focused on the health problems of military personnel pre-, during, and post-deployment. The symposium sought to address technologies and policies for medical surveillance systems that would protect the health ... |
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| OR2020: The Operating Room of the Future |
MAY 2004 |
84 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin R. Cleary; GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC MEDICAL CENTER
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| The modern operating room requires an increasing number of new surgical instruments, monitoring and imaging devices, information systems, and communication networks. While these individual technologies are improving, attention must also be paid to integrating all of these resources to improve the quality and efficiency of surgical procedures. The OR2020 Workshop was organized by the Imaging Science and Information Systems (ISIS) Center at Georgetown University Medical Center to identify the clinical ... |
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| Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (Videotape) |
14 APR 2004 |
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| Authors:
Tyra Wolfsberg; Eric Hoffman; AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH WASHINGTON DC
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| ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 VHS video; 1/2 in.; 01:23:00. SYSTEMS DETAIL NOTE: |
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| Developing a Strategic Information Systems Plan for the Heidelberg US army Medical Department Activity |
APR 2004 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis W. Walker; ARMY MEDICAL DEPT ACTIVITY HEIDELBERG APO AE 09042
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| The Heidelberg Military Healthcare System does not have a strategic information systems plan for the future. The hospital is operating in a turbulent environment on an aging information system structure. The Heidelberg hospital recently underwent significant changes and is anticipating more within the next three to five years. This study consists of a qualitative analysis of the information systems for the Heidelberg healthcare system. Using a six-step customized planning methodology; ... |
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| Effects of San Diego Area Fires on Respiratory Conditions in Military Communities and San Diego-Based Military Manages to Stay Healthy During Fires |
12 FEB 2003 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Hillary Kleiner; Susan I. Woodruff; Brian P. Murphy; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| This brief paper describes the effects of the recent San Diego area wildfires on outpatient respiratory visits to local military medical treatment facilities (MTFs). Beginning October 26, 2003, San Diego County and surrounding areas experienced the worst firestorm in 33 years. The fires produced massive amounts of smoke and ash, which can exacerbate asthma and other respiratory conditions, as well as aggravate healthy lungs and throats. Using the Medical Data ... |
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| Topographical Information Map of the Nation's Breast Cancer Research Portfolio |
JUN 2002 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Tammy O. Tengs; CALIFORNIA UNIV IRVINE
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| The primary objective of this research is to understand historical patterns in the nation's breast cancer research portfolio. To achieve this objective, we created "topographical information maps" of abstracts of breast cancer research articles. The maps look like landscape maps with contour lines indicating elevation. Peaks represent scientific areas where there is a great deal of research. Valleys represent areas where there is comparatively little research. Islands represent opportunities for ... |
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| Structuring Expert-leaded Medical Protocols for Tele-Medicine Systems |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
K. S. Mammas; G. J. Madellos; G. P. Economou; D. K. Lymberopoulos; PATRAS UNIV (GREECE)
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| The structuring of standardized medical protocols that can be used in distributed tele-medicine systems (TS) is dealt. The protocols are needed to handle the medical data exchange between TS; TS can be considered as an aggregation of medical data sources and communication servers. The medical protocols have been integrated in an already presented TS tested on the field by means of a pilot project consisting of twenty-two (22) medical nodes. ... |
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| The Study of a Mini-Medical Image System With Content Indices |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
Hsin-Yi Chen; Shuenn-Tsong Young; NATIONAL YANG-MING UNIV TAIPEI (TAIWAN)
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| The study proposed a mini medical image system with content index for image retrieval which content indices include de size orientation compactness and edge characteristics of an image object. The system was built with abdominal CT images as testing material. The result proved the system is successful for the images with special interesting objects. |
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| Validation of the European Prototype for Integrated Care at Municipal Level in Savona: Updating and Maintenance |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
M. Giacomini; I. Peragallo; S. Bertone; C. Ruggiero; GENOVA UNIV (ITALY)
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| A European Prototype for Integrated Care (EPIC) was set up in the early nineties within one of the programs sponsored by the European Commission. The system mainly consists of a shared care database in which each groups of facilities is supported by a local area network (LAN). Each LAN is connected over a wide area network to a central node. The system can manage telemedicine tools such as telealarm and ... |
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| Design and Implementation of A DICOM PACS With Secure Access Via Internet |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
J. Pereira; A. Lamelo; J. M. Vazquez-Naya; M. Fernandez; J. M. Lopez-Gestal; UNIVERSIDAD DE LA CORUNA (SPAIN)
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| Among the last new developments in the field of teleradiology, a new system of telediagnostic which allows the remote transmission of digital images via Internet is prevailing. These communications have to be made through mechanisms that guarantee the confidentiality and the integrity of the clinical data, as well as the authenticity of the transmitter. This system is, in many cases, the only way to diagnose the patient pathology in emergency ... |
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| XMedIA Communication System: An XML Driven Medical Image Processing and Archiving Environment |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
G. C. Sakellaris; D. I. Fotiadis; IOANNINA UNIV (GREECE)
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| This paper addresses the contribution of XML and related technologies, to the integration of a distributed health care system that inherits characteristics from the extended framework of extended Markup Language, XML, the distributed Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP and Distributed Component Object Model, DCOM, architecture, The solution that this system suggests is a two-module architecture that involves the familiar, secure and effective environment of a distributed architecture using DCOM and ... |
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| The Internet- and Digital Signature-Based Prescription Order Communication System Using Synchronized Smart Cards in the 2-Way Type Terminal |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
Won Jay Song; Byung Ha Ahn; KWANGJU INST OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (REPUBLIC OF KOREA) DEPT OF MECHATRONICS
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| Advanced research is needed to improve another efficiency and solve serious problems of privacy and management of drug history for patients, security for medical professionals, and unpredictable disconnection of the Internet such as the off-line status. Therefore, this research paper presents a new system's design and development of the prescription order communication system (POCS) based on the Internet between the hospital and the pharmacy, on the public-key infrastructure, and on ... |
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| A Database Federation Platform for Gene Chips and the Human Genome Database |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
B. Fu; S. Zhang; W. Chuang; C. F. Dewey Jr; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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| Data sources that are typical of the next generation of biological information entities are gene chips that identify the individual genes in a given biological sample. These data are currently stored in a database format defined by the Genetic Analysis Technology Consortium (GATC). To interpret the chip data, we also need information about the genes themselves, as found in the Human Genome Database (HGDB). These two databases were conceived at ... |
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| Online Database for the Assessment and Comparative Evaluation of Rehabilitation Outcomes |
25 OCT 2001 |
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| Authors:
T. E. Ward; B. Caulfield; NATIONAL UNIV OF IRELAND DUBLIN
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| The changing face of rehabilitation structures and practices has meant that measurement of outcomes of rehabilitation has become an absolute necessity. Unfortunately the level of agreement over which measures to use is poor as a result of lack of access to measures and lack of knowledge concerning methods of analysis and interpretation of results. In this paper we report on efforts by the authors to address these issues through the ... |
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| AMSARA: Accession Medical Standards Analysis and Research Activity 2000 Annual Report |
2001 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
Margot R. Krauss; David Niebuhr; Lily Trofimovich; Timothy Powers; Li Yuanzhang; WALTER REED ARMY INST OF RESEARCH WASHINGTON DC DIV OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
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| The Accession Medical Standards and Research Activity (AMSARA) has completed its fourth year of providing the DoD with evidence-based evaluations of accession standards. Included in this report are studies on asthma, mental health conditions, early hospitalization and rehabilitation of injured recruits. The first study demonstrates that recruits waived for a history of asthma were more likely to remain on active duty than those who did not need a wavier to ... |
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| Field Medical Surveillance System User's Manual |
14 DEC 2000 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Jennifer A. Jaeger; Shawn Wing; Martin R. White; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| An easy-to-use Windows(Trademark) based program for medical surveillance, which environmental health officers and preventive medicine to record, analyze, and disseminate data on diseases and illnesses that may occur during foreign deployments or conflicts. FMSS does this by integrating the Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON) knowledge base with new patient in formation gathered during deployments. |
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| Development of a Common Database for Digital Mammography Research |
OCT 2000 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robert M. Nishikawa; CHICAGO UNIV IL
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| The purpose of this infrastructure project is to develop a large database of digitized mammograms that will be distributed free of charge to researchers working in all aspects of digital mammography. This database will facilitate and promote rapid development in digital mammography research. The database will consist of 1000 cases subdivided into 5 categories, 4 containing different breast lesions -- masses, microcalcifications, architectural distortions, asymmetric densities (both benign and malignant) ... |
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| Workshop on Semantic Spatial Databases |
25 MAY 2000 |
71 pages |
| Authors:
Naphtali Rishe; Maria Martinez; FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIV MIAMI SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| This grant supported a workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications that was held at Florida International University's High Performance Database Research Center (FIU HPDRC) on April 30, 1998 and May 1, 1998. This workshop featured HPDRC-developed technology and facilitated the exchange of ideas with other researchers. Attendance was by invitation; over 70 people attended the workshop. Sessions on medical informatics, advances in database design, GIS and spatial data ... |
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| Atlas of Injuries in the U.S. Armed Forces: A Report by the DOD Injury Surveillance and Prevention Work Group for the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Safety and Occupational Health |
AUG 1999 |
642 pages |
| Authors:
B. H. Jones; P. J. Amoroso; M. L. Canham; M. B. Weyandt; J. B. Schmitt; ARMY CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENGINE
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) Injury Surveillance and Prevention Work Group, chartered under the DoD Safety and Occupational Health Committee and Defense Environment Security Council, was tasked to: Determine the size of the problem of injuries in the military. Document rates and trends of injury fatalities, disabilities, and hospitalizations. This Identify information sources with potential for use in conducting injury surveillance and prevention programs. Atlas of Injuries in the U.S. ... |
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| Development of a Common Database for Digital Mammography Research |
OCT 1998 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Robert M. Nishikawa; CHICAGO UNIV IL
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| The purpose of this infrastructure project is to develop a large database of digitized mammograms that will be distributed free of charge to researchers working in all aspects of digital mammography. This database will facilitate and promote rapid development in digital mammography research. The database will consist of 1000 cases subdivided into 5 categories, 4 containing different breast lesions: masses, microcalcifications, architectural distortions, asymmetric densities (both benign and malignant) and ... |
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| Local Area Network End User Satisfaction Study at the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration's VA Puget Sound Health Care System |
MAY 1998 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Warren E. Hill; ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES (ARMY) FORT SAM HOUSTON TX HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
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| This non-experimental, longitudinal study examines Local Area Network (LAN) end user satisfaction (EUS) among 47 health care executives at the VA puget Sound Health Care System (VA PSHCS). The executives included in this study were using the LAN before October 1, 1997 and after the implementation (February 18, 1998) of the LAN infrastructure enhancements. This study uses satisfaction as one measure to support the LAN enhancements, and as ... |
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| Coding Accuracy of the Ambulatory Data System: A Study of Coding Accuracy Within the General Internal Medicine Clinic, Walter Reed Army Medical Center |
17 APR 1998 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel W. Gall; WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER WASHINGTON DC
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| The Military Health system (MHS) has implemented a relatively new automated information system to help capture diagnoses, procedures, and insurance data for all ambulatory encounters. This system, recently implemented at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), is called the Ambulatory Data System (ADS). While the current MHS metric for ADS focuses on compliance, the quality of the data has yet to be extensively measured. Hence, the ... |
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| Analysis of Variables Affecting the Length of Time Service Members Spendin the United States Army Physical Disability Evaluation System at Irwin Army Community Hospital |
APR 1998 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
William T. Goforth; ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES (ARMY) FORT SAM HOUSTON TX HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
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| The purpose of this analysis is to identify the variables which contribute to the length of time an individual service member remains in the disability review process at Fort Riley, Kansas. Results from this analysis will assist in the development of performance improvement initiatives that maximize the quality of the Army's Physical Disability Evaluation System (PDES). This research project targets the demographic, choice related, and systemic ... |
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| A Catalog of Department of Defense Medical Models and Simulations. Version 2 |
1998 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Eleanor D. Gauker; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| Information about Department of Defense medical models and simulations is available from many different sources. The Internet, in particular, is a rich source of data, but searching the Web can be time- consuming. Although information is available, it is often difficult to locate, and, once found, is often outdated. The Joint Services Medical Readiness Modeling & Simulation Advisory Group (JSMRSAG) recognized this problem early ... |
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| Multitask Learning |
23 SEP 97 |
253 pages |
| Authors:
Rich Caruana; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Multitask Learning is an approach to inductive transfer that improves learning for one task by using the information contained in the training signals of other related tasks. It does this by learning tasks in parallel while using a shared representation; what is learned for each task can help other tasks be learned better. In this thesis we demonstrate multitask learning for a dozen problems. We explain how multitask ... |
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| A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Establishing a Patient Self-Care Unit at Madigan Army Medical Center |
APR 96 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Steven H. Chowen; ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES (ARMY) FORT SAM HOUSTON TX HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATI ON
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| A case study of inpatient utilization at Madigan Army Medical Center was conducted in three phases to determine the number of inpatient bed days coded as self care to determine the potential for future populations of self care patients, and to conduct a cost benefit analysis between establishing a self care unit or keeping self care patients in an inpatient bed. An investigation of Nursing Workload Management Data indicated that ... |
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