BACKGROUND AND REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION FLIR Systems was established in 1978 and is an industry leader in the area of civilian and military infrared cameras and programs for image analysis (see Figure 1), with more than 30,000 systems delivered. The Swedish division of FLIR Systems is located in Danderyd just outside of Stockholm and exports products to nearly 60 countries. Examples of typical a...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has instituted a medical record (EMR) that includes electronic documentation of all narrative components of the medical record. To support clinicians using the system, multiple efforts have been instituted to ease the creation of narrative reports. Although electronic documentation is easier to read and improves...

The purpose of this poster is to describe a new research model that describes a novel way to studying the effectiveness of electronic documentation as a communication system. The model, which has been adapted from Gerbner's (1956) General Communication Model and Effken's (2003) Informatics Research Organizing Model (IROM), illustrates both the events that occur during the communication process ...

Urban planning is an activity for optimal land usage organisation design according to a number of functional criteria. Making decision in urban planning depends on various factors including environment characteristics, desired aim, present infrastructure, buildings and previously made decisions. Urban planning relies on knowledge of human experts in various areas and also on huge volumes of dat...

This contribution presents a multi-modal documentation system for the Amerindian culture and language of the Venezuelan Warao. The project has two main tasks: the documentation of language and culture of the Warao and the development of a documentation system. Our key aim is to allow the integration of different media and data types (photos, drawings, file cards, and audio data) in such a fashi...

A properly performed fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES(®)) is comprehensive and time-consuming. Editing times of FEES protocols and attempts for efficiency maximization are unknown. Here, the protocol editing times of completed FEES examinations were determined. The present study reports the time savings and quality gains of a newly developed documentation system tailored to ...

PURPOSE To date few studies have compared nursing home caregivers' perceptions about the quality of information and benefits of nursing documentation in paper and electronic formats. With the increased interest in the use of information technology in nursing homes, it is important to obtain information on the benefits of newer approaches to nursing documentation so as to inform investment, orga...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of the introduction of an electronic nursing documentation system on the efficiency of documentation in a residential aged care facility. BACKGROUND Modern technology has the potential to free caregivers in residential aged care facilities from their burden of paper documentation and allow them more time to care for residents. To date, there is inadeq...