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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Nov 2010
Development and use of a medication history service associated with a health information exchange: architecture and preliminary findings.
We describe our early experience with use in emergency department settings of a standards-based medication history service integrated into a health information exchange (HIE). The service sends queries from one Exchange's emergency department interface both to a local ambulatory care system and to the medication hub services provided by a second HIE. ⋯ Usage may be increasing as additional retail pharmacy data become available. Early results suggest that research and development emphasis requirements will of necessity shift from obtaining prescription medication history to finding new means to ensuring effective use.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Nov 2010
eEvidence: Information Seeking Support for Evidence-based Practice: An Implementation Case Study.
We propose to collect freely available articles from the web to build an evidence-based practice resource collection with up-to-date coverage, and then apply automated classification and key information extraction on the collected articles to provide means for sounder relevance judgments. We implement these features into a dual-interface system that allows users to choose between an active or passive information seeking process depending on the amount of time available.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Nov 2010
Comprehensive yet scalable health information systems for low resource settings: a collaborative effort in sierra leone.
We address the problem of how to integrate health information systems in low-income African countries in which technical infrastructure and human resources vary wildly within countries. We describe a set of tools to meet the needs of different service areas including managing aggregate indicators, patient level record systems, and mobile tools for community outreach. We present the case of Sierra Leone and use this case to motivate and illustrate an architecture that allows us to provide services at each level of the health system (national, regional, facility and community) and provide different configurations of the tools as appropriate for the individual area. Finally, we present a, collaborative implementation of this approach in Sierra Leone.