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Understanding the impact of health information exchange technology: workflow elements, patterns of use, and information ecologies
(2009-11-30)
The concept of health information exchange (HIE) among organizations in the United States has evolved over the last 25 years, from early efforts to build Community Health Information Networks to recent collaborations in ...
Novel Methods for Variable Selection in Non-faithful Domains, Understanding Support Vector Machines, Learning Regions of Bayesian Networks, and Prediction Under Manipulation
(2009-12-11)
The focus of my research was to develop several novel computational techniques for discovering informative patterns and complex relationships in biomedical data. First, an efficient, heuristic method was developed to ...
Applying human factors research to electronic prescribing clinical decision support
(2009-07-27)
Clinical decision support in electronic prescribing (e-Rx) systems can improve patient safety and quality of care. Despite the availability of drug information knowledgebases and decision support modules, users often disable ...
A comparison of Bayesian network structure learning algorithms on emergency department ambulance diversion data
(2009-07-28)
Use of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
A framework for the discharge of patients from the adult emergency department
(2009-11-09)
The emergency room is a challenging place to practice medicine. Overcrowding, episodic care, and an interrupt driven environment are all factors contributing to medical errors in the ED . We performed a comprehensive ...
Building an online community to support local cancer survivorship: combining informatics and participatory action research for collaborative design
(2009-04-14)
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the collaborative design of an online community for cancer survivorship in middle Tennessee. The four primary aims of this qualitative study were to define the local cancer ...
IDPicker 2.0: Improved Protein Assembly with High Discrimination Peptide Identification Filtering
(2009-07-15)
Tandem mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics has become a widespread technology for analyzing complex protein mixtures. A number of database searching algorithms have been developed to assign peptide sequences to ...
A Framework for the Automatic Discovery of Policy from Healthcare Access Logs
(2009-07-22)
Healthcare organizations are often stymied in their efforts to prevent insider attacks that violate patient privacy. Numerous high-profile privacy breaches involving celebrities have brought this deficiency to the public's ...