Due to shifting of healthcare data in electronic form, huge volumes of data have been accumulated in organizations related to medical claim processing domain. This paper presents design of a data warehouse implemented as integral part of a rule based expert system. The system is being used for scrubbing of medical claims’ data. Approximate star schema has been used for designing the proposed da...

improving the quality of medical images at pre and post-surgery operations are necessary for beginning and speeding up the recovery process. partial differential equations (pdes)-based models have become a powerful and well known tool in different areas of image processing such as denoising, multiscale image analysis, edge detection and other fields of image processing and computer vision. in t...

1. A good thesis sentence will make a claim. This doesn't mean that you have to reduce an idea to an "either/or" proposition and then take a stand. Rather, you need to develop an interesting perspective that you can support and defend. This perspective must be more than an observation. "America is violent" is an observation. "Americans are violent because they are fearful" (the position that Mi...

The Stress of Bayesian Medicine Changes in medical understanding or practice usually occur slowly, allowing physicians to carefully update their knowledge and retain claim on expertise. But C...

G reimbursed for the services you provide should be fairly straightforward: provide a service, submit a claim, and receive payment. It sounds simple enough, but a lot can go wrong in this process, from coding and data entry errors made by your practice to complex coding edits made by your payers. The American Medical Association’s most recent National Health Insurer Report Card found that the m...

Recent research has thrown considerable doubt on the claim that King George III suffered from variegate porphyria, but indicates that he suffered recurrent attacks of mania as part of his bipolar disorder. George III's last episode of ill health occurred during the final decade of his life (1810-20). This has been diagnosed as chronic mania with an element of dementia. During this period the ki...