Project documentation is a requisite task to the success of a software development project. Project documentation strings up the context of development for a software project. However, preparing, writing and maintaining project documents are often considered a tedious and fragmental job, especially in the rapid project development with the stress of time. With the aim at achieving single sourci...

In radiation oncology, where treatment concepts are elaborated in interdisciplinary collaborations, handling distributed, large heterogeneous amounts of data efficiently is very important, yet challenging, for an optimal treatment of the patient as well as for research itself. This becomes a strong focus, as we step into the era of modern personalized medicine, relying on various quantitative d...

Issues of information management, quality management, process management, and empirical research are often seen independently from each other. In the Essen interdisciplinary pressure ulcer project, they were integrated to establish a synergy between quality of care, economics and research. The electronic documentation of events and supplementary information was done with the hospital wide patie...

To examine gaps in communication versus documentation of weight-management clinical practices, communication was recorded during primary care visits with 6- to 12-year-old overweight/obese Latino children. Communication/documentation content was coded by 3 reviewers using communication transcripts and health-record documentation. Discrepancies in communication/documentation content codes were r...

The article by Elbogen et al. makes a valuable contribution to the little-studied connection between documentation of violence risk information and risk management. Some clinicians neither take the time nor have the inclination to document violence risk assessments adequately. When the clinician is confronted with a patient at imminent risk of becoming violent toward others or himself, the clin...

Over the last two years we have been designing and implementing an architecture for environments along with an instantiation of that architecture as a C++ programming environment. To do this we have examined the most effective environments—programming or otherwise—and gathered features we would like to see in next-generation environments, and from this we have designed a minimal set of construc...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to examine the current level of operations and management education within US-based Emergency Medicine Residency programs. METHODS Residency program directors at all US-based Emergency Medicine Residency programs were anonymously surveyed via a web-based instrument. Participants indicated their levels of residency education dedicated to documentation, bill...