The association between hospital ownership and postoperative complications: Does it matter who owns the hospital?

abstract：:As the population ages and chronic diseases abound, overburdened healthcare systems will increasingly require individuals to manage their own health. Online health management tools, quickly increasing in popularity, have the potential to diminish or even replace in-person contact with health professionals, but overall...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Zettel-Watson L,Tsukerman D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the usability and acceptability of a website that provides older people with tailored advice to help motivate them to undertake physical activities that prevent falls. Views on the website from interviews with 16 older people and 26 sheltered housing wardens were analysed thematically. The websit...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Nyman SR,Yardley L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Content produced by caregivers of stroke survivors on the online video-sharing platform YouTube may be a good source of knowledge regarding caregivers' unmet needs. We aimed to examine the content, quantity and quality of YouTube videos that target and discuss the needs and concerns of caregivers of stroke survivors. ...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Denham AM,Baker AL,Spratt NJ,Wynne O,Hunt SA,Bonevski B,Kumar R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas in most sectors, technology has taken over trivial and labour consuming tasks, this transformation has been delayed in the healthcare sector. Although appropriate technology is available, there is general resistance to substituting 'warm' hands with 'cold' technology. In the future, this may change as the numb...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Aanesen M,Lotherington AT,Olsen F

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technical aspects of the National Programme for IT in the National Health Service have run ahead of genuine engagement with front-line users. We have explored with front-line NHS staff the factors which limit their contribution to management information from operational systems. Staff place psychological distance betw...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Harrop N,Wood-Harper T,Gillies A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to automatically categorize submitted questions based on topics and suggest similar question and answer to the users reduces the number of redundant questions. Our objective was to compare intra-topic and inter-topic similarity between question and answers by using concept-based similarity computing analys...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Naderi H,Madani S,Kiani B,Etminani K

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious games (exergames) have the potential to be effective for postural balance and increasing muscle strength. Several games have been developed to increase physical fitness and balance among older adults. However, it is unclear to which degree usability and acceptability of exergames for older adults have been eva...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Nawaz A,Skjæret N,Helbostad JL,Vereijken B,Boulton E,Svanaes D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community health care services are considered integral to overcoming future problems in health care. However, this sector faces its own challenges, such as how to organise services to provide coordinated care given: their physical distribution, patients using multiple services, increased patient use and differing pati...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Palmer R,Utley M,Fulop NJ,O'Connor S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data mining methods in biomedical research might benefit by combining genetic algorithms with domain-specific knowledge. The objective of this research is to show how the evolution of treatment rules for autism might be guided. The semantic distance between two concepts in the taxonomy is measured by the number of rel...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Engle K,Rada R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging population and economic crisis specially in developed countries have as a consequence the reduction in funds dedicated to health care; it is then desirable to optimize the costs of public and private healthcare systems, reducing the affluence of chronic and dependent people to care centers; promoting healthy...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Gachet Páez D,de Buenaga Rodríguez M,Puertas Sánz E,Villalba MT,Muñoz Gil R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In caring for patients with sepsis, the current structure of electronic health record systems allows clinical providers access to raw patient data without imputation of its significance. There are a wide range of sepsis alerts in clinical care that act as clinical decision support tools to assist in early recognition ...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Schubel L,Mosby DL,Blumenthal J,Capan M,Arnold R,Kowalski R,Seagull FJ,Catchpole K,Schwartz JS,Franklin E,Littlejohn R,Miller KE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight blood glucose control reduces the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 1 diabetes. However, this is very difficult due to the large intra-individual variability and other factors that affect glycaemic control. The main limiting factor to achieve strict control of glucose le...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Vehí J,Contreras I,Oviedo S,Biagi L,Bertachi A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical mass of public health practitioners with expertise in analytic techniques and best practices in comparative effectiveness research is needed to fuel informed decisions and improve the quality of health care. The purpose of this case study is to describe the development and formative evaluation of a technolo...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Salinas-Miranda AA,Nash MC,Salemi JL,Mbah AK,Salihu HM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to conduct the first usability inquiry of a gamified, behavior change theory-guided mobile app PuzzleWalk for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Eighteen adults with and without ASD participated in a mixe...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Lee D,Frey GC,Min A,Kim B,Cothran DJ,Bellini S,Han K,Shih PC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the use of electronic patient records in daily practice. In four wards of a large hospital district in Finland, N = 43 patients' care and activities were observed and analysed in terms of the Grounded Theory method. The findings revealed that using electronic patient records cr...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Laitinen H,Kaunonen M,Åstedt-Kurki P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the coding validity of hypertension, diabetes, obesity and depression related to the presence of their co-existing conditions, death status and the number of diagnosis codes in hospital discharge abstract database. We randomly selected 4007 discharge abstract database records from four teaching hos...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Peng M,Southern DA,Williamson T,Quan H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging adults have been raised in the digital age and are therefore prime candidates for using a patient portal to manage chronic conditions. The limited body of research both identifies the underutilization of the patient portal and suggests increased use of the portal for the chronically ill as a tool to alleviate...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Marsh KK,Bush RA,Connelly CD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of health professionals to the use of health information technology (HIT) is an important research topic that can partly explain the success or failure of any HIT application. The present study applied a modified version of the revised technology acceptance model (TAM) to assess the relevant beliefs and a...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Ketikidis P,Dimitrovski T,Lazuras L,Bath PA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate identification and prediction of high-cost Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients is important for addressing the economic burden of COPD. The objectives of this study were to use machine learning approaches to identify and predict potential high-cost patients and explore the key variables ...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Luo L,Li J,Lian S,Zeng X,Sun L,Li C,Huang D,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease, and leads to everyday self-management of this chronic condition. This article aims to provide documentation for a participatory design study of a telehealth solution to improve the kidney transplantation process, and to identi...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Nielsen C,Agerskov H,Bistrup C,Clemensen J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe Pathology Extraction Pipeline (PEP)--a new Open Health Natural Language Processing pipeline that we have developed for information extraction from pathology reports, with the goal of populating the extracted data into a research data warehouse. Specifically, we have built upon Medical Knowledge Analysis To...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Ashish N,Dahm L,Boicey C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study will highlight the diagnostic potential that radar plots display for reporting on performance benchmarking from patient admissions to hospital for surgical procedures. Two drawbacks of radar plots - the presence of missing information and ordering of indicators - are addressed. Ten different orthopaedic sur...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Morales-Silva DM,McPherson CS,Pineda-Villavicencio G,Atchison R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to reveal the influential mechanism on patients' adoption intention of telemedicine in the underdeveloped areas. Based on 896 patients' data collected in Pakistan, we found that patients' adoption intention is a function of traveling cost, attitudes, and perceived usefulness. High travelin...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Zhang X,Zaman BU

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The implementation of generic models for organizing information in complex institutions like those in healthcare creates a gap between standardization and the need for locally relevant knowledge. The present study addresses how this gap can be bridged by focusing on the practical work of healthcare staff in transformi...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Winman T,Rystedt H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with serious mental illness have reduced life expectancy compared with a control population, much of which is accounted for by significant physical comorbidity. Frontline clinical staff in mental health often lack confidence in recognition, assessment and management of such 'medical' problems. Simulation provid...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Akroyd M,Jordan G,Rowlands P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on a conceptual framework that can be applied to the use of mobile technology in the waiting room with the goal of empowering women recently diagnosed with abnormal Pap test results. It further describes trends which indicate a need for improved and timely information dissemination. Genecology pra...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Reychav I,Parush A,McHaney R,Hazan M,Moshonov R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates some of the data quality challenges facing the HIV surveillance system in the United States. Using the content analysis method, Center for Disease Control annual HIV surveillance reports (1982-2014) are systematically reviewed and evaluated against relevant data quality metrics from previous li...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Ngugi BK,Harrington B,Porcher EN,Wamai RG

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smartphones with their rising popularity and versatile software 'apps' have great potential for revolutionising healthcare services. However, this was soon overshadowed by concerns highlighted by many studies over quality. These were subject and/or discipline specific and mostly evaluated compliance with a limited num...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Ben-Mussa A,Paget AM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many patients use mobile devices to track health conditions by recording patient-generated health data. However, patients and clinicians may disagree how to use these data. OBJECTIVE:To systematically review the literature to identify how patient-generated health data and patient-reported outcomes collect...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Lordon RJ,Mikles SP,Kneale L,Evans HL,Munson SA,Backonja U,Lober WB

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims at developing SuperOrder, an order recommendation system for outpatient clinics. Using the electronic health record data available at midnight, SuperOrder predicts the order contents for each upcoming appointment on a daily basis. A two-level prediction framework is proposed. At the base-level, the pre...

journal_title：Health informatics journal

authors： Sung YS,Dravenstott RW,Darer JD,Devapriya PD,Kumara S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00