Objective To examine users’ attitudes to implementation of an electronic medical record system in Kaiser Permanente Hawaii. Design Qualitative study based on semistructured interviews. Setting Four primary healthcare teams in four clinics, and four specialty departments in one hospital, on Oahu, Hawaii. Shortly before the interviews, Kaiser Permanente stopped implementation of the initial syste...

OBJECTIVE To examine users' attitudes to implementation of an electronic medical record system in Kaiser Permanente Hawaii. DESIGN Qualitative study based on semistructured interviews. SETTING Four primary healthcare teams in four clinics, and four specialty departments in one hospital, on Oahu, Hawaii. Shortly before the interviews, Kaiser Permanente stopped implementation of the initial s...

Abstract Background From a notion concentrated on the ability to understand health information, literacy (HL) has become broad concept, considered critical determinant of community health. The HLS-EU-measures perceived HL based theoretical model concept. Methods This study explored metric properties tool in new European setting among convenience sample 300 healthcare users state General Hospita...

A major deficiency in state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is the lack of robustness in additive and convolutional noise. The model of auditory perception (PEMO), developed by Dau et al. (1996a) for psychoacoustical purposes, partly overcomes these difficulties when used as a front end for automatic speech recognition. To further improve the performance of this auditory-b...

In this section, we briefly present the formalism we use. This formalism aims at describing the state of a system and its dynamic behaviour in an algebraic framework [DG 94]. It was first introduced in a case study on a formal specification of the embedded safety part of an automatic subway pilot [DM 91], [Dau 92], [DGM 93], in order to cope with the large number of variables whose values made ...