Business rules guide the operation of an organization, thus its documentation provides an important source of information both for developing technological solutions (information systems, databases)and for evaluating information systems implementations. Despite its importance, manual creation and maintenance of business rule documentation is very costly, and practically infeasible in complex or...

Integrating building information modeling (BIM) technology into historical and cultural heritage structures has resulted in historic (H-BIM), an effective method for managing documenting invaluable artifacts. H-BIM the potential to aid with design, restoration, maintenance activities of buildings by properly integrating parametric data deliberately assessing semantic information, thus progressi...

background and objectives: standard clinical documentation is an integral part of quality patient care. this study aimed to explore compliance of two iranian teaching hospitals with the clinical documentation standards.   methods: a total of 400 records were surveyed. data were collected using a checklist of standard measures. the checklist comprised 15 items selected from relevant guidelines...

To examine gaps in communication versus documentation of weight-management clinical practices, communication was recorded during primary care visits with 6- to 12-year-old overweight/obese Latino children. Communication/documentation content was coded by 3 reviewers using communication transcripts and health-record documentation. Discrepancies in communication/documentation content codes were r...

An online tool based on dialectometric methods, DistGraph, is applied to a group of Kru languages of Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Burkina Faso. The inputs to this resource consist of tables of languages x linguistic features (e.g. phonological, lexical or grammatical), and statistical and graphical outputs are generated which show similarities and differences between the languages in terms of the...

This paper describes how a method for evaluating organisational change based on the theory of logical types can be used for classifying organisational change processes to understand change after the implementation of an electronic documentation system in a residential aged care facility. In this instance we assess the organisational change reflected by care staff's perceptions of the benefits o...

1 Francisco J. García, University of Salamanca, Computer Science Department, Faculty of Sciences, Salamanca, 37008, Spain [email protected] 2 María N. Moreno, University of Salamanca, Computer Science Department, Faculty of Sciences, Salamanca, 37008, Spain [email protected] Abstract Requirements elicitation, so directly related to the final success of a software project, is also a complex task. Requir...

BACKGROUND If transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is to play a role in coronary diagnostics, satisfactory image documentation of the coronary status is indispensable so that the requirements for validity and quality assurance of a medical examination can be met. Our goal was to develop a suitable and valid procedure for imaging coronary arteries with 2D TEE. METHODS AND RESULTS After pilot...

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a serious birth defect and developmental disorder caused by in utero exposure to alcohol. Assessment of the public health burden of FAS through surveillance has proven difficult; there is wide variation in reported prevalence depending on the study population and surveillance method. Generally, records-based birth prevalence studies report estimates of 0.2-1.5 pe...