Introduction The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the hospital level and received by public health for syndromic surveillance. The triage note, a free text expansion on the chief complaint, is one of the many variables that are becoming commonplace in syndromic surveillance data feeds. Triage notes are readily available in many ED information syst...

Recent models of biological motion processing focus on the articulational aspect of human walking investigated by point-light figures walking in place. However, in real human walking, the change in the position of the limbs relative to each other (referred to as articulation) results in a change of body location in space over time (referred to as translation). In order to examine the role of th...

INTRODUCTION Articulation of pronounced sounds during the training and subsequent use of esophageal speech is very important because it contributes significantly to intelligibility and aesthetics of spoken words and sentences, as well as of speech and language itself. The aim of this research was to determine the quality of articulation of sounds of Serbian language by groups of sounds in patie...

Biomedical imaging techniques are applied to observe the hidden process of human articulation. We propose a new approach for obtaining a typical image for a phoneme’s articulation. We use vocal tract images captured using dynamic MRI, and by considering image spatial characteristics (intensities), we calculate the average of different instances of phoneme articulation. The obtained image presen...

In this paper we introduce the concept of the short-time articulation index. This is a procedure for calculating a time-varying articulation index from data on a block-by-block basis. The short-time articulation index can be used to give a running measure of the speech intelligibility for an adaptive noise-cancellation system as it converges. We present an algorithm for calculating the short-ti...

This article aimed at introduce and offer a concept of 'spatial articulation' that sustainable in developing the ideal urban housings settlements Indonesia, 'Spatial Articulation' is or theory developed from 'Articulation Mode Production'—A realm macro sociology offers assumption social formations on periphery (developing countries) are mastered, least, by two modes production, capitalist mode ...

The federal government, through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has moved vigorously to promote widespread and meaningful use of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014. The Kentucky Department of Corrections implemented its EHR system in 2006 and in 2010 the department assessed user satisfaction and perception of usability based on crite...

Hospitals gain a year to meet stage 2 meaningful use rules.