Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jan 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of electronic health record use on the exam room communication skills of resident physicians: a randomized within-subjects study.
The effects of electronic health records (EHRs) on doctor-patient communication are unclear. ⋯ Use of an EHR on a laptop computer appears to improve the ability of first-year residents to communicate with patients relative to using a paper chart.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jan 2015
Value Driven Outcomes (VDO): a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software framework for understanding and improving health care costs and outcomes.
To develop expeditiously a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software framework for understanding and improving healthcare value (costs relative to outcomes). ⋯ The framework described can be expeditiously implemented to provide a pragmatic, modular, and extensible approach to understanding and improving healthcare value.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jan 2015
Automated clinical trial eligibility prescreening: increasing the efficiency of patient identification for clinical trials in the emergency department.
(1) To develop an automated eligibility screening (ES) approach for clinical trials in an urban tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED); (2) to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP), information extraction (IE), and machine learning (ML) techniques on real-world clinical data and trials. ⋯ By exploiting the text of trial criteria and the content of EHRs, we demonstrated that NLP-, IE-, and ML-based automated ES could successfully identify patients for clinical trials.