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June 2010 - May 2013
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January 2013 - May 2020
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This White Paper presents the foundational domains with examples of key aspects of competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that are intended for curriculum development and accreditation quality assessment for graduate (master's level) education in applied health informatics. Through a deliberative process, the AMIA Accreditation Committee r...
Introduction:
Despite the widespread availability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the USA, vaccine hesitancy continues to represent a significant impediment to the attainment of herd immunity and the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. This survey analysis provides an update for clinical healthcare providers and public health officials regarding current trend...
Background:
Anaphylaxis is an often under diagnosed, severe allergic event for which epidemiologic data is sporadic. Researchers have leveraged administrative and claims data algorithms to study large databases of anaphylactic events, however, little longitudinal data analysis is available after transition to the ICD 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM).
Ob...
Historical and recent population health issues necessitate the goal of educating and preparing a transdisciplinary workforce with population health knowledge and competence to be able to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative and feasible solutions that not only address multifaceted community health problems downstream but also to be able to p...
Introduction
Computable biomedical knowledge artifacts (CBKs) are digital objects conveying biomedical knowledge in machine‐interpretable structures. As more CBKs are produced and their complexity increases, the value obtained from sharing CBKs grows. Mobilizing CBKs and sharing them widely can only be achieved if the CBKs are findable, accessible,...
Vaccinations are among the most effective means of preventing hospitalizations related to infections. Despite this, high hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable diseases strain available healthcare resources and imply deficiencies in primary care. Barriers to vaccinations exist, such as the recent pandemic, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation,...
Background Health informatics (HI) is a growing field of study, yet sparse data are available on the characteristics of undergraduate HI programs in the United States. The lack of a central location for U.S. HI undergraduate program data has led to a gap in information to support current efforts to promote academic standards in the field and attrac...
The Health Level 7 (HL7) organization introduced the Information Sensitivity Policy Value Set with 45 sensitive data categories to facilitate the implementation of granular electronic consent technology. The goal is to allow patients to have control over the sharing of their sensitive medical records. This study represents the first attempt to expl...
Purpose
Between 30 and 68% of patients prematurely discontinue their antidepressant treatment, posing significant risks to patient safety and healthcare outcomes. Online healthcare forums have the potential to offer a rich and unique source of data, revealing dimensions of antidepressant discontinuation that may not be captured by conventional data...
Background:
Foundational domains are the building blocks of educational programs. The lack of foundational domains in undergraduate health informatics (HI) education can adversely affect the development of rigorous curricula and may impede the attainment of CAHIIM accreditation of academic programs.
Objective:
This White Paper presents foundatio...
Physician categorizations of electronic health record (EHR) data (e.g., depression) into sensitive data categories (e.g., Mental Health) and their perspectives on the adequacy of the categories to classify medical record data were assessed. One thousand data items from patient EHR were classified by 20 physicians (10 psychiatrists paired with ten n...
Motivated in many ways by the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies along with the shift toward increased patient decision-making and empowerment, changes in healthcare have had critical implications for clinical research. This chapter explores the developments impacting health consumers from various perspectives, with some...
Statement of Purpose
The causes of suicide attempts or ideation are complex and multifaceted. This study analyzes physical traumatic injury as a risk factor for suicide ideation and intentional self-harm.
Methods/Approach
A retrospective analysis of an all-inclusive inpatient dataset, comparing the one-year hospital readmission rate, involving int...
INTRODUCTION The prevalence of antidepressant use among adults in the United States population increased from 7.7% in 1999-2002 to 13.2%in 2015-2018 time periods, 1 with an increase in the global market cost estimated at $15.8 million in 2023. The therapeutic benefits of antidepressants depend on adherence to prescribed drug regimens, yet between 3...
Background:
Over recent years, medical journals have emphasized the increasingly critical role that social media plays in the dissemination of public health information and disease prevention guidelines. However, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter continue to pose unique challenges for clinical healthcare providers and public health officials...
BACKGROUND
In recent years, medical journals have emphasized the increasingly critical role that social media plays in the dissemination of public health information and disease prevention guidelines. However, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter continue to pose unique challenges for clinical health care providers and public health officials ali...
The “Psychiatric Treatment Adverse Reactions” (PsyTAR) dataset contains patients’ expression of effectiveness and adverse drug events associated with psychiatric medications. The PsyTAR was generated in four phases. In the first phase, a sample of 891 drugs reviews posted by patients on an online healthcare forum, “askapatient.com”, was collected f...
The culmination of the changes in healthcare, motivated in many ways by the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies in parallel with the shift toward increased patient decision-making and empowerment, has critical implications for clinical research, from recruitment and participation to, ultimately, successful outcomes. This c...
Background:
Adolescents at risk for anaphylaxis are a growing concern. Novel training methods are needed to better prepare individuals to manage anaphylaxis in the community.
Introduction:
Didactic training as the sole method of anaphylaxis education has been shown to be ineffective. We developed a smartphone-based interactive teaching tool with...
UWM-Adverse Drug Events Corpus (UWM-ADEC) is an annotated corpus that has been developed from consumer drug review posts in social media. In this corpus, we identified four types of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) including physiological, psychological, cognitive, and functional problems. Additionally, we mapped the ADRs to corresponding concepts in...
Background
Understanding adverse event patterns in clinical studies across populations is important for patient safety and protection in clinical trials as well as for developing appropriate drug therapies, procedures, and treatment plans.
Objectives
The objective of our study was to conduct a data-driven population-based analysis to estimate the...
To compare the effectiveness and side effects of migraine prophylactic medications.
We performed a network meta-analysis. Data were extracted independently in duplicate and quality was assessed using both the JADAD and Cochrane Risk of Bias instruments. Data were pooled and network meta-analysis performed using random effects models.
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Importance:
The prevalence of potentially fatal food allergies in school-aged children is rising. It is important for schools to have a food allergy management policy and an emergency action plan for each affected student.
Objective:
To examine the current status of food allergy guideline and/or policy implementation and adoption in a large scho...
PURPOSE/AIM
Repositories of radiology reports and electronic health data provide opportunities to facilitate research. The i2b2 (Biology to the Bedside) project provides an open-source, scalable framework to link biomedical research datasets to clinical record systems. i2b2 has been developed to bridge the biological and clinical research domains t...
The August 2011 Clinical and Translational Science Awards conference "Using IT to Improve Community Health: How Health Care Reform Supports Innovation" convened four "Think Tank" sessions. Thirty individuals, representing various perspectives on community engagement, attended the "Health information technology (HIT) as a resource to improve communi...
Imaging modality can aid retrieval of medical images for clinical practice, research, and education. We evaluated whether an ensemble classifier could outperform its constituent individual classifiers in determining the modality of figures from radiology journals. Seventeen automated classifiers analyzed 77,495 images from two radiology journals. E...
PURPOSE
Imaging modality is an important property that can aid in the retrieval of medical images for clinical practice, research, and education. We evaluated a hierarchical approach to classify images from radiology journals using "textons", intensity histograms, and filter-convolution feature vectors. Textons are putative elementary units of pre-...
