To determine the impact of information technology on embedding the latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening guidelines in an electronic medical record (EMR) in a large health care system. The long-term goal of the study is to test clinician adherence to LTBI screening guidelines using an EMR system. However, preliminary results are presented on the potential impact on providers on impleme...

Symptom entities are widely distributed in Chinese electronic medical records. Previous approaches on symptom entity extraction usually extract continuous strings as symptom entities and require massive human efforts on corpus annotation. We describe the symptom entity as two-tuples of and design a soft pattern matching method to locate them in sentences in the EMR. Our bootst...

Electronic medical record (EMR) systems and e-prescribing by physicians have the potential to reduce the incidence of medical errors and to improve the provision of care to patients through better compliance with recommended standards, improved coordination of care, and ready access to current information. 1, 2 In 2008, after a national survey , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C...

The explosive growth of electronic medical data (EMR) has led to a major unmet need for efficient data retrieval, presentation, analysis, and decision support. We have been developing and evaluating visual-based strategies for efficient organization and analysis of population medical data from multiple sources to study a particular disease and associated treatments and outcomes. We believe the ...

We describe quality improvement and practice-based research using the electronic medical record (EMR) in a community health system-based department of neurology. Our care transformation initiative targets 10 neurologic disorders (brain tumors, epilepsy, migraine, memory disorders, mild traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, Parkinson disease, restless legs syndrome, and stroke)...

When most patients visit physicians in a clinic or a hospital, they are asked about their medical history and related medical tests’ results which might not exist or might simply have been lost over time. In emergency situations, many patients suffer or sadly die because of lack of pertinent medical information. Patient’s Health information (PHI) saved by Electronic Medical Record (EMR) could b...

In an ongoing effort to share heterogeneous electronic medical record (EMR) data in an i2b2 instance between the University Hospitals Münster and Erlangen for joint cancer research projects, an ontology based system for the mapping of EMR data to a set of common data elements has been developed. The system translates the mappings into local SQL scripts, which are then used to extract, transform...

The value of the non-tangible benefits of an electronic medical record (EMR) is clear. But until real financial gain (or a neutral monetary impact but improved documentation and adherence to best practices) is proven, the decision to purchase an EMR as a component of practice management may never get off the drawing board. This is particularly true for smaller, independent clinics. With this in...

The advent of electronic medical records has made clinical information beyond that included in the imaging request more readily available to radiologists. Recent study has demonstrated that this additional information may affect interpretation and treatment in over 20% of cases [1]. However, most EMRs exist in a separate computer system from the PACS, which may present a barrier to use of the E...

A descriptive study of health information technology (HIT) vendors was conducted to identify which EMR/EHR vendors currently work or anticipate working with SNOMED CT, determine the prevalence of SNOMED CT integration in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) products, identify the available and potential future applications for SNOMED CT in EMR/EHR systems, and lear...