Medical differential diagnosis (ddx) is based on the estimation of multiple distinct parameters in order to determine the most probable diagnosis. Building an intelligent medical differential diagnosis system implies using a number of knowledge based technologies which avoid ambiguity, such as ontologies rep resenting specific structured information, but also strategies such as computation of p...

THE PROBLEMS OF DOCUMENTING MEDICAL RECORDS IN IMPLEMENTATION A PAYMENT SYSTEM BASED ON DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS (DRG): QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

With advancements in information technology, computer applications have now been largely implemented in health care, where medical support system or expert system is serving as a second opinion for medical personnel, underscoring its importance. The present study aims to design a prototype medical diagnostic support system, in which DICOM-based image analysis algorithms are utilized to develop ...

The objective of this study was to compare the fee-for-service and set fee for diagnosis-related group systems with regard to quality of medical care and cost to appendectomy patients. We conducted a retrospective study of 208 inpatients (from 20 hospitals) who undergone appendectomy in Changsha, China during 2013. Data were obtained from databases of medical insurance information systems direc...

Cooperative medical diagnosis systems seem to be well suited for the solving of many difficult medical diagnosis problems, like the combinations of illnesses where between the illnesses treatments are dependencies. The solving of many difficult medical problems requires knowledge from different medical domains, which cannot be detained by a single physician or a medical computational system. In...

the purpose of the present study was to assess job stress in medical records personnel. 117 females and 78 males were assessed by osipow et al.'s job roles inventory. data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and chi-square test. the findings indicated that the physical environment was the main source of stress for the staff of the four different units of the medical records department,...