Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Implementation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) with Clinical Decision Support (CDS) features in Riyadh Hospitals to improve quality of information.
In this paper, we have conducted a preliminary study of the applied Clinical Decision Support (CDS) features in adopted Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems. The study was conducted in three hospitals in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. ⋯ CPOE systems allow physicians to enter their medication orders electronically, but many of the applied CPOE systems do not contain alerts to advise physicians of potentially dangerous interactions caused by incorrect medications. Hospitals are advised to enhance the role of CDSS with the CPOE to reduce medication errors, improve patients' safety and increase information quality.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Personalised mobile health and fitness apps: lessons learned from myFitnessCompanion®.
Smartphones and tablets are slowly but steadily changing the way we look after our health and fitness. Today, many high quality mobile apps are available for users and health professionals and cover the whole health care chain, i.e. information collection, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. Our team has developed a mobile health and fitness app called myFitnessCompanion® which has been available via Android market since February 2011. ⋯ We discuss the acceptance of health apps by end-users and healthcare industry. We discuss how mobile health apps will be distributed in the near future, the use of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems such as Microsoft HealthVault and the impact of regulations (FDA) on the future of mobile health apps. The paper is based on seven years of experience by the authors as mobile health and fitness application developers and we discuss the challenges and opportunities for app developers in the health industry.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Nasotracheal intubation in a difficult airway using the Storz C-MAC Videolaryngoscope, the Boedeker Bougie endotracheal introducer, and the Boedeker curved forceps.
Airway management has multiple indications for nasotracheal intubation. In this study, we focus on its indication in difficult airways. This work describes a modified procedure of nasotracheal intubation using the new Storz CMAC® Videolaryngoscope, the malleable Boedeker Bougie and the curved Boedeker Forceps in the intubation of a difficult airway manikin.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Organizing data quality assessment of shifting biomedical data.
Low biomedical Data Quality (DQ) leads into poor decisions which may affect the care process or the result of evidence-based studies. Most of the current approaches for DQ leave unattended the shifting behaviour of data underlying concepts and its relation to DQ. ⋯ In this paper we propose an organization of biomedical DQ assessment based on these concepts, identifying characteristics and requirements which will facilitate future research. As a result, we define the Data Quality Vector compiling a unified set of DQ dimensions (completeness, consistency, duplicity, correctness, timeliness, spatial stability, contextualization, predictive value and reliability), as the foundations to the further development of DQ assessment algorithms and platforms.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Interoperability design of personal health information import service.
Availability of personal health information for individual use from professional patient records is an important success factor for personal health information management (PHIM) solutions such as personal health records. In this paper we focus on this crucial part of personal wellbeing information management splutions and report the interoperability design of personal information import service. Key requirements as well as design factors for interfaces between PHRs and EPRs are discussed. Open standards, low implementation threshold and the acknowledgement of local market and conventions are emphasized in the design.