Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2013
Observational StudyDeveloping and applying a cross-disciplinary team handover information system.
In order to avoid medical errors, it is very important to communicate with the medical team correctly, timely and efficiently. One of main reasons for the poor outcome of multidisciplinary handover in hospital is lacking effective tools for multidisciplinary handover. The project aimed to develop a workflow-based multidisciplinary handover information system, integrated with medical record browsing, multidisciplinary handover and event tracking, to improve the correctness and effectiveness of communication among the medical team members.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2013
Video segmentation of moving humans for assistive environments.
In this paper, we present two recently proposed efficient methods for human segmentation from video in indoor environments: the illumination sensitive background method and the self-organizing background subtraction (SOBS) method. Both methods maintain multiple background models. ⋯ The video data are acquired indoors from a fixed fish-eye camera in the living environment. The paper presents the algorithmic implementation and modifications details, while results are also presented for a small number of video sequences.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2013
Development of an early detection and monitoring system for deteriorating patients.
A number of methods of preventing cardiopulmonary arrest are currently in use. One such method is the alert response system developed by Seoul National University Children's Hospital, which is an early detection and monitoring system for deteriorating patients who are at risk of cardiopulmonary arrest. This system offers an effective means of detecting early warning signs and monitoring deteriorating patients, and its application can reduce rates of cardiopulmonary arrest.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2013
Developing a multivariate electronic medical record integration model for primary health care.
This paper describes the development of a multivariate electronic medical record (EMR) integration model for the primary health care setting. Our working hypothesis is that an integrated EMR is associated with high quality primary health care. ⋯ To test the face validity of this model, a Delphi study is being planned where health care providers and information technology professionals involved with EMR adoption are polled for their feedback. This model has the potential to quantify and explain the factors that influence successful EMR integration to improve primary health care.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2013
Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: analysis of common data elements.
Physical medicine rehabilitation interventions for post-acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) are heterogeneous and subject to differences based on multi-disciplinary treatment plans [1]. There is no universal knowledge representation (KR) model for TBI rehabilitation which impedes data collection, aggregation, computation, and sharing. This paper describes results of an analysis of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) TBI "Common Data Elements" (CDE) clinical data standardization set. ⋯ A content coverage study was performed on the "Treatment/Intervention" sub-set of CDEs. Results show that coverage of the CDEs is broad but lacks depth to represent the context of data collection in the TBI rehabilitation process. Next steps will be development of a KR model and identification and validation of domain concepts for a foundational ontology.