Browsing by Author "Nancy M. Lorenzi"
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Stenner, Shane P. (2011-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPilot studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using mobile technologies as a platform for electronic patient-centered medication management. Such tools may be used to intercept drug interactions, stop unintentional ...
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Improving Provider-to-Provider Communication: Evaluation of a Computerized Inpatient Sign-out Tool Campion, Jr., Thomas Richmond (2007-09-13)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPhysicians’ use of a computerized inpatient sign-out tool has been shown to reduce the risk of preventable adverse events. The researcher evaluated sign-out software usage at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in order ...
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VanHouten, Jacob Paul (2013-12-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsCoronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Acute coronary syndromes (ACS), a subset of CAD, account for 1.4 million hospitalizations $165 billion in costs in the United States alone. A major ...
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Campion, Jr., Thomas Richmond (2010-08-02)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIntensive insulin therapy (IIT), a nurse-driven protocol combining frequent blood glucose testing and insulin administration to tightly control blood glucose, became the standard of critical care following a 2001 study. ...
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Unertl, Kim Marie (2009-11-30)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe concept of health information exchange (HIE) among organizations in the United States has evolved over the last 25 years, from early efforts to build Community Health Information Networks to recent collaborations in ...
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VanHouten, Jacob Paul (2016-07-29)Department: Biomedical InformaticsElectronic health records (EHRs) are rich data sources that can be analyzed to discover new, clinically relevant patterns of disease manifestations. However, sparsity, irregularity, and asynchrony in health records pose ...