Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jul 2010
Biography Historical ArticlePresentation of the 2009 Morris F Collen Award to Betsy L Humphreys, with remarks from the recipient.
The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline of medical informatics, is the Morris F Collen Award. Dr Collen's own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand out as the embodiment of creativity, intellectual rigor, perseverance, and personal integrity. ⋯ Her work has involved new knowledge sources and innovative strategies for advancing health data standards to accomplish these goals. Ms Humphreys becomes the first librarian to receive the Collen Award. Dr Collen, on the occasion of his 96th birthday, personally presented the award to Ms Humphreys.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Mar 2010
The impact of electronic medical records data sources on an adverse drug event quality measure.
To examine the impact of billing and clinical data extracted from an electronic medical record system on the calculation of an adverse drug event (ADE) quality measure approved for use in The Joint Commission's ORYX program, a mandatory national hospital quality reporting system. ⋯ More detailed clinical information may result in quality measures that are not comparable across institutions due institution-specific workflow, differences that are exposed using EMR-derived data.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jan 2010
Physician attitudes toward health information exchange: results of a statewide survey.
To assess physicians' attitudes toward health information exchange (HIE) and physicians' willingness to pay to participate in HIE. ⋯ Physicians perceive that HIE will have generally positive effects, though a considerable fraction harbor concerns about privacy. While physicians may be willing to participate in HIE, they are not consistently willing to pay to participate. HIE business models that require substantial physician subscription fees may face significant challenges.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Nov 2009
Clinical Case Registries: simultaneous local and national disease registries for population quality management.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a system-wide, patient-centric electronic medical record system (EMR) within which the authors developed the Clinical Case Registries (CCR) to support population-centric delivery and evaluation of VA medical care. To date, the authors have applied the CCR to populations with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). ⋯ From 128 local registry systems, over 60,000 and 320,000 veterans in VA care have been identified as having HIV and HCV, respectively, and entered in the national database. Local and national reports covering demographics, resource usage, quality of care metrics and medication safety issues have been generated.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Sep 2009
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyHandheld vs. laptop computers for electronic data collection in clinical research: a crossover randomized trial.
To compare users' speed, number of entry errors and satisfaction in using two current devices for electronic data collection in clinical research: handheld and laptop computers. ⋯ Despite the increasing use of handheld computers for electronic data collection in clinical research, these devices should be used with caution. They double the duration of the data entry process and significantly increase the risk of typing errors and missing data. This may become a particularly crucial issue in studies where these devices are provided to patients or healthcare workers, unfamiliar with computer technologies, for self-reporting or research data collection processes.