Informating, not automating, the medical record

Automating and informating: roles to examine technology's impact on performance

Previous studies on the impact of technology on performance (usefulness) have looked at the Information System (IS) in its role as supplier of information (informating role) and thus they have studied the influence of information quality and system quality on usefulness. However, an IS also has a role in the automation of tasks (automating role), which these studies do not take into account. Ac...

Automating the approximate record-matching process

Data Quality has many dimensions one of which is accuracy. Accuracy is usually compromised by errors accidentally or intensionally introduced in a database system. These errors result in inconsistent, incomplete, or erroneous data elements. For example, a small variation in the representation of a data object, produces a unique instantiation of the object being represented. In order to improve ...

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Automating Medical Image Analysis

By image analysis we mean the operation of extracting a relativeiy small amount of quantitative information from a two-dimensional image. Typically, a two-dimensional image, in digital form, consists of an array of 512 x 512 eight-bit digital words. The quantitative information to be extracted consists of a few thousand digital words. These words may describe, for example, the contours of cell ...

Do not resuscitate orders: practice vs. medical record notes.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of pediatric patients' death records of a tertiary care center, comparing these records with data from a previous study. METHODS Death records entered on the medical charts of non-resuscitated patients between 1999 and 2001 were compared with the medical procedure during cardiac arrest, which was described based on the Utstein-style guidelines. Our results w...