Designing privacy for scalable electronic healthcare linkage [PDF]
A unified electronic health record (EHR) has potentially immeasurable benefits to society, and the current healthcare industry drive to create a single EHR reflects this.
Ajayi, O. +3 more
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A whole-health-economy approach to antimicrobial stewardship: Analysis of current models and future direction. [PDF]
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) strategies are widely implemented in single healthcare sectors and organisations; however, the extent and impact of integrated AMS initiatives across the whole health economy are unknown. Assessing degree of integration
Ahmad, R. +5 more
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Socioeconomic Status and Kawasaki Disease Outcomes in a Single-Payer Health Care System
Background: For patients with Kawasaki disease (KD), lower socioeconomic status (SES) may adversely affect the timeliness of presentation and initiation of intravenous immune globulin, and coronary artery outcomes.
Jonathan P. Wong, MD +8 more
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Efficient large-scale multiplexing of fiber Bragg grating and fiber Fabry-Perot sensors for structural health monitoring applications [PDF]
Fiber Bragg gratings have been demonstrated as a versatile sensor for structural health monitoring. We present an efficient and cost effective multiplexing method for fiber Bragg grating and fiber Fabry-Perot sensors based on a broadband mode-locked ...
Cranch, Geoffrey A. +2 more
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Recognition of false alarms in fall detection systems [PDF]
Falls are a major cause of hospitalization and injury-related deaths among the elderly population. The detrimental effects of falls, as well as the negative impact on health services costs, have led to a great interest on fall detection systems by the ...
Abbate, Stefano +5 more
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An integrated electronic health record system is a common platform for efficient and active interaction of four major subsystems namely the medical record system, laboratory system, picture archiving and communication system and enterprise resource ...
Pawan Kumar Bajaj Agrawal +4 more
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County-level Analysis of Perinatal Health Indicators Within a Single Health System Catchment [PDF]
Abstract Background: Adverse perinatal health outcomes are disproportionally impacted in rural communities. Social determinants of health (SDoH) defined by nonclinical social, behavioral, and economic factors may impact up to 90% of health outcomes in rural communities.
Dominick J. Lemas +12 more
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When Patient Activation Levels Change, Health Outcomes and Costs Change, Too [PDF]
Patient engagement has become a major focus of health reform. However, there is limited evidence showing that increases in patient engagement are associated with improved health outcomes or lower costs.
Carmen D. Parrotta +4 more
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A direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication system for integrated sensor microsystems [PDF]
Some of the most important challenges in health-care technologies have been identified to be development of noninvasive systems and miniaturization.
Arslan, T., Aydin, N., Cumming, D.R.S.
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IntroductionClimate change is one of the 21st century's biggest public health issues and health care contributes up to 10% of the emissions of greenhouse gases in developed countries.
Linn Boberg +3 more
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