P4-555: EHR-BASED PATIENT RISK STRATIFICATION TOOL FOR PROBABLE AD

EHR-based Visualization Tool: Adoption Rates, Satisfaction, and Patient Outcomes

BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to enhance patient-provider communication and improve patient outcomes. However, in order to impact patient care, clinical decision support (CDS) and communication tools targeting such needs must be integrated into clinical workflow and be flexible with regard to the changing health care landscape. DESIGN The Stroke Prevention in ...

WRAPIN : a Tool for Patient Empowerment within EHR

Legal and technologic trends are making medical records progressively more patient-accessible. In the near future, information technology may make it even easier to provide patients a chance to review their records. One may wonder, however, about the practical use of this technology by patients. Understanding his/her own health record will certainly be one of the main concerns of patients. WRAP...

Incorporating temporal EHR data in predictive models for risk stratification of renal function deterioration

Predictive models built using temporal data in electronic health records (EHRs) can potentially play a major role in improving management of chronic diseases. However, these data present a multitude of technical challenges, including irregular sampling of data and varying length of available patient history. In this paper, we describe and evaluate three different approaches that use machine lea...

Risk stratification and patient counseling for natalizumab in multiple sclerosis.

Learning Data-Driven Patient Risk Stratification Models for Clostridium difficile

BACKGROUND Although many risk factors are well known, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to be a significant problem throughout the world. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a data-driven, hospital-specific risk stratification procedure for estimating the probability that an inpatient will test positive for C difficile. METHODS We consider electronic medical re...