COVID-19 Close Contact Management: An Evolution of Operations Harnessing the Digital Edge
AbstractSingapore, like many other nations globally, had to contend with significant caseloads arising from the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper focuses on using technology as an intervention for pandemic management. With scant scientific evidence on effective medications and vaccinations (i.e., pharmaceutical interventions) initially, disease containment strategies predominated during the early phases. Non-pharmaceutical interventions were critical in slowing disease transmission and preventing public healthcare institutions from being overwhelmed. Such interventions could be broadly divided into case-b...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Automating Electronic Health Record Data Quality Assessment
AbstractInformation systems such as Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are susceptible to data quality (DQ) issues. Given the growing importance of EHR data, there is an increasing demand for strategies and tools to help ensure that available data are fit for use. However, developing reliable data quality assessment (DQA) tools necessary for guiding and evaluating improvement efforts has remained a fundamental challenge. This review examines the state of research on operationalising EHR DQA, mainly automated tooling, and highlights necessary considerations for future implementations. We reviewed 1841 articles from Pu...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The Current State and Usage of European Electronic Cross-border Health Services (eHDSI)
Conclusion: Nevertheless, the program is still used mostly for testing purposes. It seems that only electronic prescription and dispensation are commonly and widely used so far and only Estonian and Finnish patients usually get their medication dispensed abroad. The rest of the operational countries is still at present missing country pairs with a strong cross-border use case. (Source: Journal of Medical Systems)
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Automated Emails to Improve Evening Staffing for Anesthesiologists
AbstractScheduling flexibility and predictability to the end of a clinical workday are strategies aimed at addressing physician burnout. A voluntary relief shift was created to increase the pool of anesthesiologists providing end of the day relief. We hypothesized that an automated email reminder would improve the number of evening relief shifts filled and increase the number of anesthesiologists participating in the program. An automated email reminder was implemented, which selectively emailed anesthesiologists without a clinical assignment one day in advance when the voluntary relief shifts were not filled, and anticipa...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Retraction Note: Improved Deep Learning Network Based in Combination with Cost-sensitive Learning for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer in Color Ultrasound Detecting System
(Source: Journal of Medical Systems)
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The Current State and Usage of European Electronic Cross-border Health Services (eHDSI)
Conclusion: Nevertheless, the program is still used mostly for testing purposes. It seems that only electronic prescription and dispensation are commonly and widely used so far and only Estonian and Finnish patients usually get their medication dispensed abroad. The rest of the operational countries is still at present missing country pairs with a strong cross-border use case. (Source: Journal of Medical Systems)
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Automated Emails to Improve Evening Staffing for Anesthesiologists
AbstractScheduling flexibility and predictability to the end of a clinical workday are strategies aimed at addressing physician burnout. A voluntary relief shift was created to increase the pool of anesthesiologists providing end of the day relief. We hypothesized that an automated email reminder would improve the number of evening relief shifts filled and increase the number of anesthesiologists participating in the program. An automated email reminder was implemented, which selectively emailed anesthesiologists without a clinical assignment one day in advance when the voluntary relief shifts were not filled, and anticipa...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Retraction Note: Improved Deep Learning Network Based in Combination with Cost-sensitive Learning for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer in Color Ultrasound Detecting System
(Source: Journal of Medical Systems)
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Operating Room Performance Optimization Metrics: a Systematic Review
AbstractLiterature proposes numerous initiatives for optimization of the Operating Room (OR). Despite multiple suggested strategies for the optimization of workflow on the OR, its patients and (medical) staff, no uniform description of ‘optimization’ has been adopted. This makes it difficult to evaluate the proposed optimization strategies. In particular, the metrics used to quantify OR performance are diverse so that assessing the impact of suggested approaches is complex or even impossible. To secure a higher implementation success rate of optimisation strategies in practice we believe OR optimisation and its quantif...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Usability of a mHealth Solution using Speech Recognition for Point-of-care Diagnostic Management
AbstractThe administrative burden for physicians in the hospital can affect the quality of patient care. The Service Center Medical Informatics (SMI) of the University Hospital W ürzburg developed and implemented the smartphone-based mobile application (MA)ukw.mobile1 that uses speech recognition for the point-of-care ordering of radiological examinations. The aim of this study was to examine the usability of the MA workflow for the point-of-care ordering of radiological examinations. All physicians at the Department of Trauma and Plastic Surgery at the University Hospital W ürzburg, Germany, were asked to participate in...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Machine Learning for Dementia Prediction: A Systematic Review and Future Research Directions
AbstractNowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have successfully provided automated solutions to numerous real-world problems. Healthcare is one of the most important research areas for ML researchers, with the aim of developing automated disease prediction systems. One of the disease detection problems that AI and ML researchers have focused on is dementia detection using ML methods. Numerous automated diagnostic systems based on ML techniques for early prediction of dementia have been proposed in the literature. Few systematic literature reviews (SLR) have been conducted for dementia prediction ...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - February 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
