“A topic that hasn’t been as hotly discussed is using information gleaned from EHR software to participate in clinical trials. We think this should play a larger role in deciding whether or not a practice should purchase EHR software. Why? Participation in clinical trials has the potential to net a profit of hundreds of thousands [...]Objectives:
The increasing amount of electronically available documents in bibliographic databases and the clinical documentation requires user-friendly techniques for content retrieval.
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A domain-specific approach on semantic text indexing for document retrieval is presented. It is based on a subword thesaurus and maps the content of texts in different European languages to a common interlingual representation, which [...]Objectives:
Biomedical ontologies exist to serve integration of clinical and experimental data, and it is critical to their success that they be put to widespread use in the annotation of data. How, then, can ontologies achieve the sort of user-friendliness, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and breadth of coverage that is necessary to ensure extensive usage?
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Our focus here [...]Objectives:
For improving safety and quality of care as well as efficiency of health delivery under the well-known burdens, health services become specialized, distributed, and therefore collaborative, thereby changing the health service paradigm from organization-centered over process-controlled to personal health (pHealth).
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Personalized eHealth services provided independent of time and location have to be based on advanced [...]This special topic summarizes a nowadays view on selected eHealth topics first presented at the International Conference on eHealth in Regensburg, December 2–5, 2007. Within an International Experts Summit, the conference offered invited speeches from internationally leading experts representing all domains involved in eHealth. Although generally demonstrating and facilitating collaboration, the last day of the [...]“A disturbing new trend is emerging when Americans find out that bio-data is being used for purposes they never agreed to: Lawsuits are being filed against state agencies and state universities when residents find out that sensitive health information is used in ways they never expected or gave permission for.
Two examples: 1) the Texas agency [...]