A Decalogue for Medical Records

Using Patient Medical Records for Medical Research

of research findings. Therefore, governance committees (institutional review board) have tended to take a strict position regarding medical research involving human subjects, based on the declaration of Helsinki. There are a few limitations to using EMR data as one of the first steps in identifying individuals with a specific condition and proving simple and more complex research questions. Car...

Deepr: A Convolutional Net for Medical Records

Feature engineering remains a major bottleneck when creating predictive systems from electronic medical records. At present, an important missing element is detecting predictive regular clinical motifs from irregular episodic records. We present Deepr (short for Deep record), a new end-to-end deep learning system that learns to extract features from medical records and predicts future risk auto...

The Latest Decalogue

Electronic medical records

The importance of medical records in health care delivery has been recognised for a long time. Its relevance to patient care and health administration was documented by Florence Nightingale in 1873 a book entitled Notes on a Hospital. Health care is a continuous process in which data is progressively accumulated, therefore the record must function as a ‘pre-birth to post-death system that meets...

Problem orientated medical records.

Problem orientated medical records will accommodate and integrate information about minor and major problems, allow rapid updating of information and better communication between health agencies and primary care team members. They will allow colleagues to retrieve information and assess patient problems, enable better co-ordination to occur between patient investigation and treatment, and ratio...