BACKGROUND Various information technologies currently are used to improve the efficiency of clinical trials. However, electronic medical records (EMRs) are not yet linked to the electronic data capture (EDC) system. Therefore, the data must be extracted from medical records and transcribed to the EDC system. Clinical pathways are planned process patterns that are used in routine clinical practi...

BACKGROUND Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are increasingly being adopted to support the delivery of health care in developing countries and their implementation can help to strengthen pathways of care and close gaps in the HIV treatment cascade by improving access to and use of data to inform clinical and public health decision-making. METHODS This study implemented a novel cloud-bas...

OBJECTIVES The clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS) is highly variable, and research data collection is costly and time consuming. We evaluated natural language processing techniques applied to electronic medical records (EMR) to identify MS patients and the key clinical traits of their disease course. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used four algorithms based on ICD-9 codes, text keywords, an...

Case-based reasoning (CBR)-driven medical diagnostic systems demand a critical mass of up-to-date diagnostic-quality cases that depict the problem-solving methodology of medical experts. In practical terms, procurement of CBR-compliant cases is quite challenging, as this requires medical experts to map their experiential knowledge to an unfamiliar computational formalism. In this paper, we prop...

Electronic medical records (EMRs) document the healthcare provided to the patient using both unstructured clinical notes and structured data. Typically, these records are large, containing hundreds of documents about a single patient. To navigate the vast amounts of information about a patient, current EMR applications available to physicians either attempt to proactively summarize important pa...

Recording information in emergency departments (EDs) constitutes a major obstacle to efficient treatment. A new electronic medical records (EMR) system focusing on clinical documentation was developed to accelerate patient flow. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a new EMR system on ED length of stay and physician satisfaction.We integrated a new EMR system at a hospital already...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerotic vascular disease (AVD), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, is increasing in prevalence in the developing world. We describe an approach to establish a biorepository linked to medical records with the eventual goal of facilitating discovery of biomarkers for AVD. METHODS The Vascular Disease Biorepository at Mayo Clinic was established to archive DNA, plasma...

Introduction Electronic medical records (EMRs) are gaining increasing prominence in the delivery of healthcare although the focus is primarily on deploying EMRs. Relatively little research has studied the postimplementation of commercial EMRs. Here we present the results of a web-based survey comparing primary care providers (PCPs) and sub-specialists (SSs) in our tertiary care health system. T...

INTRODUCTION Electronic medical records (EMRs) are the future of primary care. Transition to electronic records can have a significant impact on physicians, office staff, nursing staff and patients. There are no published EMR studies combining these four populations or studies that have evaluated the impact of EMR demonstrations. To better understand the impact of EMRs, an online survey was adm...

The adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) in primary care settings is on the rise in the United States and many are feeling the stress. The introduction of the EMR or transition to a new EMR is known to create workflow challenges for primary care providers and their office staff, as was the case in our health system. This study evolved out of an attempt to alleviate stress by defining t...