The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has opened up new opportunities for using deep neural networks to enhance healthcare. However, modeling EHR data can be challenging due its complex properties, such as missing values, scarcity in multi-hospital systems, and multimodal irregularity. How tackle various issues EHRs improving medical prediction is under exploration. I sepa...

BACKGROUND Providing patients with access to their electronic health records offers great promise to improve patient health and satisfaction with their care, as well to improve professional and organizational approaches to health care. Although many benefits have been identified, there are many questions about best practices for the implementation of patient accessible Electronic Health Records...

T he rate at which electronic health records (EHRs) are being adopted in the United States appears to be increasing rapidly (Xierali et al. 2013). Of course, adoption is not an end in itself. Instead, the goal of increasing the use of EHRs is to improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and the goal of meaningful use is to improve the likelihood that EHRs will achieve these ends. EHRs should als...

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) discovery is the task of identifying unexpected and negative events caused by pharmaceutical products. This paper describes a log-linear Hawkes process model for ADR discovery from longitudinal observational data such as electronic health records (EHRs). The proposed method leverages the irregular time-stamped events in EHRs to represent the time-varying effect of va...

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) was formed to improve patient safety and quality of care by promoting the use of health information technology through community-based implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange. The Collaborative has recently implemented EHRs in a diverse set of competitively selected communities, encompassing nearly 500 ph...

in order to reach the electronic health record's (ehr's) goals and also for the users to employ it with confidence, integrated standards in the field of structure, content, data exchange, information production, architecture and system security must be formulated. before establishment of ehr, we should accept current standards or change them due to meet the needs of society and/or patterns from...

Socioeconomic status (SES) has an important effect on health. Individuals with lower SES experience more chronic disease, are less likely to receive preventive care, and have shorter life expectancies. As the Affordable Care Act is implemented and increasing numbers of previously uninsured people gain access to health care, the imperative to recognize patients' SES and develop health initiative...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) have been proposed as a sustainable solution for improving the quality of medical care. We assessed the association between EHR use, as implemented, and the quality of ambulatory care in a nationally representative survey. METHODS We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of visits in the 2003 and 2004 National Ambulatory Medical Care S...

Health care expenditure in the United States exceeds $2 trillion a year, and on a per capita basis far exceeds the expenditure of any other country. Much of this money is not well spent, as many studies have documented the inefficiency and waste in the public and private health care systems. Furthermore, despite the high cost of American health care, key measures of the nation’s health, such as...