BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to enhance patient-provider communication and improve patient outcomes. However, in order to impact patient care, clinical decision support (CDS) and communication tools targeting such needs must be integrated into clinical workflow and be flexible with regard to the changing health care landscape. DESIGN The Stroke Prevention in ...

Morphological Component Analysis (MCA) is a new method which takes advantage of the sparse representation of structured data in large overcomplete dictionaries to separate features in the data based on the diversity of their morphology. It is an efficient technique in such problems as separating an image into texture and piecewise smooth parts or for inpainting applications. The MCA algorithm c...

There is a need to provide haptic and tactile feedback to surgeons during robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Such feedback is also essential for palpation based diagnostic during cancer removal using MIS. There have been recent efforts at developing a mechatronic finger to mimic some of the palpation capabilities of a human finger. These mechatronic fingers typically record force...

this is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art and science of education into the sphere of medical education in shiraz. before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. the students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught ...

PURPOSE To determine whether preoperative, postoperative, or change in keratometry can be used to predict visual outcomes in hyperopic LASIK. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted on hyperopic eyes treated at Optical Express clinics. All eyes were targeted for emmetropia and treated using wavefront-guided LASIK (VISX S4, Abbott Medical Optics [AMO]), with flaps created using a femtos...

WHAT distinguishes clinical medicine from biomedicine? Most physicians would probably agree that in their daily clinical work they rely not only on biomedical but also on humane qualities. Many patients express a concern that the humanistic aspects of medicine are overshadowed by mechanistic ideas, which they feel have come to dominate much of the medical community. At the same time, there is l...

along with improvement and expansion if computational communications and increasing access of various peoples to the internet and virtual social networks, a lot of theoretical endeavors have been spent for studying the internet and its political and social effects. during these attempts, the concept of public sphere in the framework of habermas's theory has a significant status. accordingl...

The teaching and practice of forensic pathology and public health on an integrated basis or as one in which these disciplines are closely associated dates back to the turn of the century, as exemplified by the publication in 1902 of John Glaister's Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Toxicology and Public Health. In the metamorphosis of medical training and medical practice, however, current cir...