Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Benn DK, Kostewicz SH, Dankel DD, Segal R, Schmidt SO, Chardon Z.
PMID: 11080022
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1168.

Physician compliance with clinical guidelines varies between 30% and 50% despite knowledge of and acceptance of guidelines. In an attempt to improve the use of guidelines there is increasing interest in the development of clinical decision support systems. We...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Sable JH, Hales JW, Bopp KD.
PMID: 11079983
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;745-8.

Objective: To assess the medical informatics needs of healthcare organizations and the work roles for informaticists in those organizations. Methods: A 128-item survey was developed and administered as a structured interview to thirty-two information managers in eighteen organizations. The...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Murphy SN, Barnett GO, Chueh HC.
PMID: 11080028
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1174.

The patient base of the Partners HealthCare System in Boston exceeds 1.8 million. Many of these patients are desirable for participation in research studies. To facilitate their discovery, we developed a data warehouse to contain clinical characteristics of these...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Soliz E, Sinav A, Ambron R, Molholt P.
PMID: 11080031
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1177.

The knowledge of anatomy is essential for all health care professionals. However, it has become extremely difficult to find qualified instructors who can fit into an academic environment that stresses research funding and publications for promotion. In addition, dissection,...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

East TD.
PMID: 11080033
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;A.

Calculation of return on investment should be as easy as knowing the cost and the benefit and doing the math. Unfortunately in medical informatics rarely do we know the benefit with absolute certainty. Often the benefit is a combination...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Duncan R, Shabot M.
PMID: 11080023
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1169.

The authors will demonstrate the comprehensive web based viewing system for clinical and administrative data in widespread use in the Cedars-Sinai Health System. This system encompasses over a dozen disparate systems of varying ages, each of which originally had...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Hirschl R, Sikina C, Keller J, Kastle K, McConnell K, Greenfield L, Plachta M.
PMID: 11080025
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1171.

Purpose: The Clinical Charge Capture system (C3) was developed at the University of Michigan to increase the efficiency and accuracy with which information about physician activity and billing is tracked in academic medical centers. Description: This Oracle-based, Visual Basic...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Ricciardi TN, Masarie FE, Landholt T, Middleton B.
PMID: 11080030
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1176.

Payer organizations, regulatory entities, and delivery networks are placing increasing pressure on physicians to report aggregate information about their patients and practice of medicine. Historically, clinicians have been ill-equipped to respond to these pressures when their practices have relied...

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Brennan PF, Caldwell B, Jones J, Moore SM, Sreenath N.
PMID: 9929246
Proc AMIA Symp. 1998;381-5.
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With the current trend toward discharge of cardiac artery bypass graft (CABG) patients from the hospital after 5 days, clinicians must make effective use of existing computer technology to provide more efficiently the services once available during the patient's...

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Espino JU, Levine MG.
PMID: 9929263
Proc AMIA Symp. 1998;467-71.
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As medical schools incorporate medical informatics into their curriculum the problems of implementation arise. Because there are no standards regarding a medical informatics curriculum, medical schools are implementing the subjects in various ways. A survey was undertaken to amass...

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Kohane IS, Altman RB.
PMID: 11079920
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;433-7.

It is widely recognized that the Internet has fundamentally changed the dynamics of publication, and in particular, it is clear that there is no effective way to control the release of any web-based publication. The scientific and lay literature...

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Hersh W.
PMID: 11080024
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000;1170.

A growing number of health care professionals (e.g., physicians, nurses, librarians, and administrators) desire to enhance their skills and knowledge in medical informatics. These individuals are usually in established careers with limited time as well as inability to relocate...