abstract：:This paper reflects some desiderata on the role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the coming years as foreseen in the medical domain. During the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference in 1997, the NLP track was composed by numerous papers on natural language, knowledge representation, nomenclatures and clas...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Baud R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of healthcare systems in developed countries is changing to 'shared care', enforced by economic constraints and caused by a change in the basic conditions of care. That development results in co-operative health information systems across the boundaries of organisational, technological, and policy domain...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Blobel B,Holena M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Health care is moving toward a team effort, with patients as partners. This requires effective communication between physicians and patients, who have different understandings of health and illness. These understandings in turn guide their decisions about management of health and illness. With the introducti...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Cytryn KN,Patel VL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To realize clinical data exchange between healthcare providers, there must be many standards in many layers. Terms and codes should be standardized, syntax to wrap the data must be mutually parsable, then transfer protocol or exchange media should be agreed. Among many standards for the syntax, HL7 and DICOM are most ...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Kimura M,Ohe K,Yoshihara H,Ando Y,Kawamata F,Tsuchiya F,Furukawa H,Horiguchi S,Sakusabe T,Tani S,Akiyama M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specialized university curriculum for medical informatics (MI) at the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn is one of the oldest educational approaches in the field of MI and has been successful now for 25 years with about 1000 graduates (Diplom-Informatikerin der Medizin or Diplom-Informatiker d...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Leven FJ,Haux R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Funding constraints, demands for improved efficiency, low staff to student ratios and improved computer software (D. Wright, The use of multimedia computers and software in nurse education, Health Inf. 1 (3) (1995) 101-107.) all combine to produce a situation where a dramatic increase in the use of CBE for tertiary nu...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Cheek J,Gillham D,Mills P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this contribution both the EDUCTRA project of the European Advanced Informatics in Medicine Programme and the IT-EDUCTRA project of the Telematics Applications Programme (Health Sector) are described. EDUCTRA had as aim to investigate which gaps in knowledge health professionals have with respect to health informat...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Hasman A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multimedia system used as an auxiliary didactic tool for teaching medical genetics, HGEN, is based on non-linear programmed instruction and multimedia. HGEN was implemented in layers for PC compatible using MULTIMEDIA TOOLBOOK and DELPHI. It includes basic medical genetics concepts (inheritance patterns and cytogene...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Volpe RM,Aquino MT,Norato DY

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shortly describes an Infusion Toolbox and a blood pressure (BP) control application. It explains how we applied an agent model and client-server technology to integrate them. We show that by using this framework and object oriented technologies the necessary changes to the existing applications are reduced....

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Meijers RH,Coussaert EJ,Cantraine FR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computerised record hash coding and linkage procedure is proposed to allow the chaining of medical information within the framework of epidemiological follow-up. Before their extraction, files are rendered anonymous using a one-way hash coding based on the standard hash algorithm (SHA) function, in order to respect ...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Quantin C,Bouzelat H,Allaert FA,Benhamiche AM,Faivre J,Dusserre L

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An information revolution is underway which will have an impact on all sectors of society. It will fundamentally change national and international health systems. The global Internet is a key influence and will change the balance of power within and between healthcare professions, and between them and the general publ...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Rogers R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We apply the principles included in two CEN standards (ENV 12265, ENV 12264) to the analysis of the semantic structure of health record systems, to support their semantic interoperability. This result was made possible by dramatic methodological progress in the field of terminological systems--due to a worldwide evolu...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Rossi Mori A,Consorti F

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 2-3 decades, development work on Medical Devices focused on improving their functionality (device control, signal analysis, pattern recognition and classification). At present, the dominant user requirement is information integration. This requires interconnectivity and interoperability of devices and ...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Zywietz C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for effective and efficient exchange of clinical knowledge is increasing. Paper based methods for managing clinical knowledge are not meeting the demand for knowledge and this has undoubtedly contributed to the widely reported failures of clinical guidelines. Internet affords both opportunities and dangers fo...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Buchan IE,Hanka R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date there have been fewer than a dozen studies on the nature of, and contributory factors in, critical incidents (CI) in anaesthesia. The first of these, by Cooper and colleagues, showed that the vast majority of their CI involved human error [1]. Most recently, the on-going Australian Incident Monitoring Study (A...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Staender S,Davies J,Helmreich B,Sexton B,Kaufmann M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We defined, implemented and tested two new methods for irreversible compression of angiocardiographic still images: brightness error limitation (BEL) and pseudo-gradient adaptive brightness and contrast error limitation (PABCEL). The scan path used to compress the digital images is based on the Peano-Hilbert plane-fil...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Portoni L,Combi C,Pozzi G,Pinciroli F,Fritsch JP,Brennecke R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an induction algorithm for making decisions was investigated using a complete set of diagnoses and corresponding outcomes for all possible distinct cases of thyroid disorders. Investigation of both diagnoses and outcomes followed a late discovery of a misunderstanding between the knowledge enginee...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： File PE,Dugard PI

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear analysis techniques are necessary to understand the complexity of the EMG. The purpose of the present study was to determine the fractal dimension of surface EMG obtained from the biceps brachii of normal subjects during isokinetic flexion-extension of the arm. The measurements were obtained with different l...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Gupta V,Suryanarayanan S,Reddy NP

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we search for hypotheses on association between the memory quotient and 13 clinical variables examined in a sample of 214 epilepsy patients. We introduce the General Unary Hypotheses Automaton (GUHA) method that automatically generates hypotheses from empirical data by means of computer procedures. Proce...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Zvárová J,Preiss J,Sochorová A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-switch communication is an effective auxiliary method for persons with disabilities. However, it is not easy to recognize the Morse codes typed by them. In our earlier proposed Morse code auto-recognition method, using the Least-Mean-Square (LMS) adaptive algorithm, it was demonstrated that the system could suc...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Shih CH,Luo CH

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces the topic of this special issue: challenges for medical informatics in the 21st century. This paper discusses the nature of medical informatics. Some descriptions and definitions of medical informatics are reviewed. Then the research aspects of medical informatics are discussed. It is argued that...

journal_title：International journal of medical informatics

authors： Hasman A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00