Search AMIA.org

Develop a framework for collections-based access to networked information sources that addresses the problem of location-dependent access to information sources.

Evaluate the effects of long-term maintenance activities on existing portions of a large internal medicine knowledge base.

Adjusting for risk factors, severity of illness, and complexity of care is important when comparing and interpreting outcomes. Current and future approaches for examining risk factors, severity of illness, and complexity of care are described within the contexts of administrative, economic, and clinical outcomes. Reasons why the current standardized instruments, computerized severity systems, and workload/intensity measurements, when used alone, are inadequate for outcomes monitoring are proposed. A more comprehensive model [...]

There is an urgent need to capture and record data related to clinical outcomes, but there are many barriers. The range of problems includes lack of agreement on conceptualization of the term "outcome," inadequate measures of outcomes, and inadequate information systems to capture and manipulate data that would reflect outcomes. This article focuses on information system requirements to capture, store, and utilize clinical outcome data. For greatest accuracy, outcome data [...]

Health care delivery systems and organizations around the world are undergoing reorganization and reengineering. Rational decision making about such activities must be based on information. Much of the presently available data is inadequate for this task, and therefore needs to be transformed. One such experience in the province of Alberta, Canada, is discussed. The development of a comprehensive information strategy, the need to apply information management principles, the organizational implications [...]