It's the information that's important, not the technology.
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050131
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050131
Guidelines regarding patient-provider electronic mail are presented. The intent is to provide guidance concerning computer-based communications between clinicians and patients within a contractual relationship in which the health-care provider has taken on an explicit measure of responsibility for the client's care. The guidelines address two interrelated aspects: effective interaction between the clinician and patient, and observance of medicolegal prudence. Recommendations for site-specific policy formulation are included.
Author(s): Kane, B, Sands, D Z
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050104
The aim of the project ARIANE is to model and implement seamless, natural, and easy-to-use interfaces with various kinds of heterogeneous biomedical information databases.
Author(s): Joubert, M, Fieschi, M, Robert, J J, Volot, F, Fieschi, D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050052
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) assembled a large multidisciplinary, multisite team to work on the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a collaborative research project aimed at reducing fundamental barriers to the application of computers to medicine. Beyond its tangible products, the UMLS Knowledge Sources, and its influence on the field of informatics, the UMLS project is an interesting case study in collaborative research and development. It illustrates [...]
Author(s): Humphreys, B L, Lindberg, D A, Schoolman, H M, Barnett, G O
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050001
Building on the work of previous authors, the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI) Work Group on Codes and Structures has described features of a classification scheme for implementation within a computer-based patient record. The authors of the current study reviewed the evaluation literature related to six major nursing vocabularies (the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association Taxonomy 1, the Nursing Interventions Classification, the Nursing Outcomes Classification, the Home Health Care Classification [...]
Author(s): Henry, S B, Warren, J J, Lange, L, Button, P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050321
Author(s): Masys, D R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.0050214
To study the objectives, processes, and ideologies expressed during participatory design of information systems (PDIS) in health care.
Author(s): Sjöberg, C, Timpka, T
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050177
The authors present the case study of a 35-year informatics-based single subspecialty practice for the management of patients with chronic thyroid disease. This extensive experience provides a paradigm for the organization of longitudinal medical information by integrating individual patient care with clinical research and education. The kernel of the process is a set of worksheets easily completed by the physician during the patient encounter. It is a structured medical record [...]
Author(s): Nordyke, R A, Kulikowski, C A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050088
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) includes a Metathesaurus (Meta), which is a compilation of medical terms drawn from over 30 controlled vocabularies, and a Semantic Net, which contains the semantic types used to categorize Meta concepts and the semantic relations to connect them. Meta has been constructed through lexical matching techniques and human review. The purpose of this study was to audit the Meta [...]
Author(s): Cimino, J J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050041