Building Causal Graphs from Medical Literature and Electronic Medical Records

Electronic medical records

The importance of medical records in health care delivery has been recognised for a long time. Its relevance to patient care and health administration was documented by Florence Nightingale in 1873 a book entitled Notes on a Hospital. Health care is a continuous process in which data is progressively accumulated, therefore the record must function as a ‘pre-birth to post-death system that meets...

How to Standardize Electronic Medical Records

Introduction: One of the key elements of success of health institutions is Standardization. This study introduces the methods and stages of electronic medical records standardization. Methods: The present study is a narrative review of the studies on the stages and methods of electronic medical records standardization. Results: The process of standardization of electronic medical records incl...

Text Mining Applied to Electronic Medical Records: A Literature Review

The analysis of medical records is a major challenge, considering they are generally presented in plain text, have a very specific technical vocabulary and are nearly always unstructured. It is an interdisciplinary work that requires knowledge from several fields. The analysis may have several goals, such as assistance on clinical decision, classification of medical procedures, and to support h...

Electronic Medical Records 1 Running Head: EMR’S AND NURSING EFFICIENCY Electronic Medical Records and Nursing Efficiency

Challenge of electronic medical records.