BACKGROUND Many resident physicians have experienced transitioning from traditional paper documentation and ordering to an electronic process during their training. OBJECTIVE We sought to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of residents related to implementation of computer provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS). METHODS Pediatric residents completed web-based...

BACKGROUND Computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) is an important component of the electronic health record (EHR). As an increasing amount of CDS is implemented, it will be important that this be accomplished in a fashion that assists in clinical decision making without imposing unacceptable demands and burdens upon the provider's practice. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to ...

We used administrative and clinical data from a case-control study to calculate the costs of surgical site infection and endometritis after cesarean delivery. Attributable costs determined by multivariate generalized least-squares regression models with the 2 data sets were similar, suggesting that administrative data can be used to calculate infection costs.

English. We propose a system to extract entities and relations from a set of clinical records in Italian based on two preceding works (Alicante et al., 2016b) and (Alicante et al., 2016a). This approach does not require annotated data and is based on existing domain lexical resources and unsupervised machine learning techniques. Italiano. Proponiamo un sistema per estrarre entità e relazioni da...

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.