Health informatics in UK Medical Education: an online survey of current practice [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Health informatics has growing importance in clinical practice with successive General Medical Council recommendations. However, prior data suggest that undergraduate medical education largely neglects this area.
Banerjee, A, Taylor, P, Walpole, S
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Extracting Medication Changes in Clinical Narratives using Pre-trained Language Models [PDF]
An accurate and detailed account of patient medications, including medication changes within the patient timeline, is essential for healthcare providers to provide appropriate patient care. Healthcare providers or the patients themselves may initiate changes to patient medication.
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Clinical Informatics: A New Paradigm for Advances in BioMedical Informatics [PDF]
The medical informatics field is going through a rapid change. The current model used is one of patient to physician, with information technology as a value added segment.
Rohm, B.W. Trevor, Rohm, C.E. Tapie
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Use of 'off-the-shelf' information extraction algorithms in clinical informatics: a feasibility study of MetaMap annotation of Italian medical notes [PDF]
Information extraction from narrative clinical notes is useful for patient care, as well as for secondary use of medical data, for research or clinical purposes. Many studies focused on information extraction from English clinical texts, but less dealt with clinical notes in languages other than English.
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Biomedical informatics in Switzerland: need for action
Biomedical informatics (BMI) is an umbrella scientific field that covers many domains, as defined several years ago by the International Medical Informatics Association and the American Medical Informatics Association, two leading players in the ...
Christian Lovis, Jürg Blaser
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A review of human factors principles for the design and implementation of medication safety alerts in clinical information systems. [PDF]
The objective of this review is to describe the implementation of human factors principles for the design of alerts in clinical information systems. First, we conduct a review of alarm systems to identify human factors principles that are employed in the
Avery, AJ+6 more
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Information technology has been revolutionizing the everyday life of the common man, while medical science has been making rapid strides in understanding disease mechanisms, developing diagnostic techniques and effecting successful treatment regimen ...
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Challenges of ultra large scale integration of biomedical computing systems [PDF]
The NCRI Informatics Initiative is overseeing the implementation of an informatics framework for the UK cancer research community. The framework advocates an integrated multidisciplinary method of working between scientific and medical communities. Key
Begent, R.+7 more
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Standardization in Medical Informatics [PDF]
AbstractThis article stresses the importance of standardization in the domain of Health and Medical Informatics, and Telematics. It gives an overview of the current standing of the activities of CEN TC 251 (European Standardization Committee, Technical Committee on Health Care informatics) and describes the scope and content of a number of emerging ...
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Introduction to Medical Imaging Informatics [PDF]
Medical imaging informatics is a rapidly growing field that combines the principles of medical imaging and informatics to improve the acquisition, management, and interpretation of medical images. This chapter introduces the basic concepts of medical imaging informatics, including image processing, feature engineering, and machine learning.
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