Sharing data for the public good and protecting individual privacy: informatics solutions to combine different goals.
Author(s): Ohno-Machado, Lucila
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001513
Author(s): Ohno-Machado, Lucila
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001513
Author(s): Malin, Bradley A, Emam, Khaled El, O'Keefe, Christine M
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001509
To assess patients' desire for granular level privacy control over which personal health information should be shared, with whom, and for what purpose; and whether these preferences vary based on sensitivity of health information.
Author(s): Caine, Kelly, Hanania, Rima
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001023
To model the financial effects of implementing a hospital-wide electronic medical record (EMR) system in a tertiary facility in Malawi.
Author(s): Driessen, Julia, Cioffi, Marco, Alide, Noor, Landis-Lewis, Zach, Gamadzi, Gervase, Gadabu, Oliver Jintha, Douglas, Gerald
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001242
Ensuring the security and appropriate use of patient health information contained within electronic medical records systems is challenging. Observing these difficulties, we present an addition to the explanation-based auditing system (EBAS) that attempts to determine the clinical or operational reason why accesses occur to medical records based on patient diagnosis information. Accesses that can be explained with a reason are filtered so that the compliance officer has fewer suspicious accesses [...]
Author(s): Fabbri, Daniel, Lefevre, Kristen
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001018
In 2011, the US Supreme Court decided Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., a case that addressed the mining of large aggregated databases and the sale of prescriber data for marketing prescription drugs. The court struck down a Vermont law that required data mining companies to obtain permission from individual providers before selling prescription records that included identifiable physician prescription information to pharmaceutical companies for drug marketing. The decision was based [...]
Author(s): Petersen, Carolyn, Demuro, Paul, Goodman, Kenneth W, Kaplan, Bonnie
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001123
Online health knowledge resources contain answers to most of the information needs raised by clinicians in the course of care. However, significant barriers limit the use of these resources for decision-making, especially clinicians' lack of time. In this study we assessed the feasibility of automatically generating knowledge summaries for a particular clinical topic composed of relevant sentences extracted from Medline citations.
Author(s): Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha Reddy, Del Fiol, Guilherme, Medlin, Richard, Weir, Charlene, Fiszman, Marcelo, Mostafa, Javed, Liu, Hongfang
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001347
We explored two strategies for query expansion utilizing medical subject headings (MeSH) ontology to improve the effectiveness of medical image retrieval systems. In order to achieve greater effectiveness in the expansion, the search text was analyzed to identify which terms were most amenable to being expanded.
Author(s): Crespo Azcárate, Mariano, Mata Vázquez, Jacinto, Maña López, Manuel
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000943
Electronic health records (EHR) are becoming more common because of the federal EHR incentive programme, which is also promoting electronic health information exchange (HIE). To determine whether consumers' attitudes toward EHR and HIE are associated with experience with doctors using EHR, a nationwide random-digit-dial survey was conducted in December 2011. Of 1603 eligible people contacted, 1000 (63%) participated. Most believed EHR and HIE would improve healthcare quality (66% and 79% [...]
Author(s): Ancker, Jessica S, Silver, Michael, Miller, Melissa C, Kaushal, Rainu
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001062
Significant limitations exist in the timely and complete identification of primary and recurrent cancers for clinical and epidemiologic research. A SAS-based coding, extraction, and nomenclature tool (SCENT) was developed to address this problem.
Author(s): Strauss, Justin A, Chao, Chun R, Kwan, Marilyn L, Ahmed, Syed A, Schottinger, Joanne E, Quinn, Virginia P
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000928