Matching health information seekers' queries to medical terms

Recommending Information Sources to Information Seekers in Twitter

Finding high-quality sources in the expanding micro-blogging community using Twitter becomes essential for information seekers in order to cope with information overload. In this paper, we present a recommendation algorithm aiming to identify potentially interesting users to follow in the Twitter network. This algorithm first explores the graph of connections starting at the target user (the us...

Australian health policy on access to medical care for refugees and asylum seekers

Since the tightening of Australian policy for protection visa applicants began in the 1990s, access to health care has been increasingly restricted to asylum seekers on a range of different visa types. This paper summarises those legislative changes and discusses their implications for health policy relating to refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Of particular concern are asylum seekers o...

Patient Matching within a Health Information Exchange Patient Matching within a Health Information Exchange

The purpose of this article is to describe the patient matching problems resulting from the Nationwide Health Information Network’s automated patient discovery specification and propose a more effective and secure approach for patient matching between health information organizations participating in a health information exchange. This proposed approach would allow the patient to match his or h...

Supporting E-Health Information Seekers: From Simple Strategies to Knowledge-Based Methods

Mental health of failed asylum seekers as compared to pending and temporarily accepted asylum seekers

BACKGROUND: Asylum seekers (AS) and refugees often suffer from severe psychopathology in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As PTSD impacts memory functions, and as asylum applications rely on personal accounts, AS with PTSD are at more risk of being rejected than refugees. METHODS: We studied the mental health of failed asylum seekers (FAS, N = 40) and a matched sample of AS (N...