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Cyber-Physical Medical and Medication Systems
2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2008Medical and medication devices are real-time systems with safety and timing requirements. They range from hard-real-time, embedded, and reactive systems such as pacemakers to soft-real-time, stand-alone medication dispensers. Many of these devices are already connected to computer networks, especially in hospital intensive-care units, so that patients'
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The system for medical rehabilitation in Croatia
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2006To describe the framework for medical rehabilitation in Croatia and to discuss its influence on the practice of the specialty.Collection, analysis and interpretation of data pertaining to the need for medical rehabilitation in the country and to its elements of structure, process and outcome of care.The practice of medical rehabilitation in Croatia has
Miroslav, Jelić +5 more
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Medical System Reforms and Medical Information Systems in Japan
2008Japan is undertaking medical system reforms in order to suppress the ballooning national medical expenses of the aging society. Medical computerization is one of the focal issues for this. The government has stated a plan to mandate the online billing of medical service fees for all medical institutions.
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Medical Malpractice and the Tort System
Survey of Anesthesiology, 1989FEW TOPICS in health care policy generate more contentious commentary than medical malpractice. To some, the recent trend of increasing liability awards and malpractice insurance premiums is a major crisis that affects the organization and practice of medicine.
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A hospital medication monitoring system
Journal of Medical Systems, 1979Hospitals need to process large quantities of scattered information to properly screen medication orders. The data includes complex relationships involving drugs, diseases, and other drugs that determine whether a particular drug is contraindicated for a patient.
D J, Brown +3 more
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Health Affairs, 2004
Tort-lawsuits-plus-liability-coverage cost only about $25 billion in 2002, and extra defensive medicine probably added a bit more. These small fractions of a $1.5-trillion medical economy would be a bargain if they actually bought the compensation, injury deterrence, and justice that advocates claim. They do not.
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Tort-lawsuits-plus-liability-coverage cost only about $25 billion in 2002, and extra defensive medicine probably added a bit more. These small fractions of a $1.5-trillion medical economy would be a bargain if they actually bought the compensation, injury deterrence, and justice that advocates claim. They do not.
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Accuracy of intelligent medical systems
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2005Intelligent medical systems are a special kind of medical software in general, and just as any medical software system they should make accurate presumptions. However, accuracy of intelligent medical systems is highly dependent on various factors such as: choosing an appropriate basic method (i.e. decision trees, neural networks), induction method (i.e.
P, Povalej +4 more
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Inside the Singapore Medical System
International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2013The style and structure of a nation’s health care system is not an accident; it evolves organically from the character, the politics, and the culture of its people. While generalizations are always risky, a comparison of the Canadian health care system (government-managed and equitable) with that of the United States (market-driven, exuberant ...
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Evaluating medical expert systems
Social Science & Medicine, 1987Approximately 90% of all computerized medical expert systems have not been evaluated in clinical environments. This paper: identifies the principal methods used to assess the performance of medical expert systems in both laboratory and clinical settings, describes the different research strategies used in the evaluation of medical expert systems at ...
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A System Approach to Medical Information
Methods of Information in Medicine, 1973Most effort using computers in medicine the past few years has been spent on optimizing the subsystems, e.g., the clinical laboratory, electrocardiogram analyses, business and administrative information, etc. While these areas are important, it is time more effort should be expended in terms of a system to integrate these subsystems.
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