Introduction During summer 2012, Washington State Department of Health (WA DOH) surveyed ILINet providers and found that more than half either utilize their electronic medical record system (EMRS) to gather and report weekly ILINet data, or intend to implement queries to do so in the future. There are a variety of EMRS being used state-wide, and providers that currently utilize these systems to...

BACKGROUND To date, our ability to accurately identify patients at high risk from suicidal behaviour, and thus to target interventions, has been fairly limited. This study examined a large pool of factors that are potentially associated with suicide risk from the comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) and to derive a predictive model for 1-6 month risk. METHODS 7,399 patients undergoin...

BACKGROUND There is a gap between the abilities and the everyday applications of Computerized Decision Support Systems (CDSSs). This gap is further exacerbated by the different 'worlds' between the software designers and the clinician end-users. Software programmers often lack clinical experience whereas practicing physicians lack skills in design and engineering. OBJECTIVE Our primary object...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare the data from the emergency department syndromic surveillance system of Korea in detection and reporting of acute diarrheal syndrome (mass type) with the data from the Korea Food and Drug Administration. And to offer fundamental materials for making improvements in current surveillance system was our purpose. METHODS A study was conducted by revie...

Introduction by the column editor: The biggest obstacle to harvesting the advantages of information technology systems to guide best practice has been psychiatrists' reluctance. To make algorithms efficient for physician use, electronic medical records will have to proceed or accompany the systems that guide improved care. The MINT project, which piggybacks onto the existing VA electronic medic...

Introduction Food insecurity is a significant issue in the United States and is prevalent in emergency department (ED) patients. The purpose of this study was to report the novel use of an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) order for food resources, and to describe our initial institutional referral patterns after focused education and implementation of the order. Methods This was a r...

This paper analyzes the linguistic phenomena in medical records in different departments, including average record size, vocabulary, entropy of medical languages, grammaticality, and so on. Five retrieval models with six pre-processing strategies on different parts of medical records are explored on an NTUH medical record dataset. Both coarse-grained relevance evaluation on department level and...