Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Biomedical Informatics"
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(2023-07-18)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIndividuals with ASD are at higher risk for suicide than individuals without ASD. Currently, we are not doing a particularly good job of identifying patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at risk for suicide. The ...
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(2009-11-30)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe 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 ...
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(2006-11-28)Department: Biomedical InformaticsChronic disease care is a significant and growing problem in healthcare today. Current healthcare processes are more focused on dealing with acute episodes of care rather than the longitudinal care requirements of chronic ...
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(2017-05-25)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIncreasing health information technology (HIT) adoption has led to growth in research on its implementation and use, the majority of which has been conducted in primary care and medical specialty settings. This thesis ...
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(2020-06-15)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe rise in available longitudinal patient information in electronic health records (EHRs) and their coupling to DNA biobanks has resulted in a dramatic increase in genomic research using EHR data for phenotypic information. ...
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(2016-07-29)Department: Biomedical InformaticsElectronic health records (EHRs) are rich data sources that can be analyzed to discover new, clinically relevant patterns of disease manifestations. However, sparsity, irregularity, and asynchrony in health records pose ...
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(2015-06-01)Department: Biomedical InformaticsBIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS Using Daily Progress Note Data to Predict Discharge Date from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Michael William Temple Thesis under the direction of Professor Christoph U. Lehmann Discharging ...
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(2014-06-26)Department: Biomedical InformaticsDe novo protein structure prediction is a challenge due to the sheer size of the search space. One can limit the set of potential models with long-range contact restraints (positions distant in the primary sequence but ...
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Using Informatics to Facilitate Home-Clergy Hospital Pastoral Care Visits: A Proof Of Concept Study (2011-08-24)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThis Master’s Thesis project sought to address the problem of facilitating pastoral care visits for patients from clergy by whom patients want to be visited. The project: (1) assessed the potential utility of a model, ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe inpatient care two seemingly identical patients receive for the same initial condition may be quite different. This variability in care affects patient outcomes and often increases costs. The goal of measuring care ...
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(2004-08-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsA traditional medical school curriculum consists of a large amount of information presented by a large number of faculty. Faced with a growing and evolving flood of information, medical educators require and seek assistance ...