Health Informatics

Complex Adaptive Systems and IS Implementation in the NHS, United Kingdom (Poster)

by Amila S. Wilegoda-Wickramage

Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship

by Mary Bryson

Jackie Stacey and Mary Bryson. (2012). Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship. Aporia, 4(1).

http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/journals/aporia/

Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future... more Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future that it wills into being through the overcoming of adversity. This article traces the warped temporalities of cancer survivorship, exploring its queer dimensions by combining theoretical discussions with readings of two lesbian interventions that address normative visions and narrations of healthy/diseased bodies. Cancer survivorship in each case becomes a poetic narration of desire and disease through the queering of temporality. The authors argue that the extent to which cancer's time warp here belongs to queer temporality depends on whether the queerness refers only to the odd, the uncanny, the indeterminate and the undecidable. Or if, instead, cancer's time warp is queer in the sense that sexuality is already present in cancer's disturbance to temporality. In so far as queer carries with it the traces of sexualities deemed undesirable and perverse, then such connections move beyond an analogous and into an ontological register.

(Bio)Medical Knowledge centers – Compunetics as the Foundation for Global e-Learning

by Lodewijk Bos

Bos L. (Bio)Medical Knowledge centers – Compunetics as the Foundation for Global e-Learning. In: Jordanova M, Lievens F, editors. Proceedings of the Med-e-Tel 2007. Luxemburg: Luxexpo; 2007. p. 16-23.

Just another journal? No, a different one!

by Lodewijk Bos

Bos L, Kun L. Just another journal? No, a different one! (Introduction Editorial). Health and Technology, 1(1)

Why is Health and Technology not just another journal and why does it call itself different? Because the journal will... more Why is Health and Technology not just another journal and why does it call itself different? Because the journal will look at both health and technology in a cross-disciplinary and multidirectional way.

Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: Methods of a decision-maker-researcher partnership …

by Pavel Roshanov

The electronic patient record in the twenty-first century: the required contributions of information science

by Ivan Ricarte

Co-authored with Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvão. Published in InCID: Revista de Ciência da Informação e Documentação, 2011. In Portuguese.

The electronic health record raises informational and technological issues, including some that can be addressed using... more The electronic health record raises informational and technological issues, including some that can be addressed using knowledge from the information science field and from informational professionals. To explore these issues, this article departs from the scope of electronic health record and establishes possible connections within the scope of information science. In these connections, information from literature reviews was combined with knowledge obtained by observation of contexts of health records production and use, by observation and analysis of health records in different formats and from different institutions, and by contact with health professionals, information professionals, computing professionals, managers, and researchers that work directly with health records. Results describe informational and technological issues of electronic health record that are related to the processes of creation, communication, identification, selection, acquisition, organization and retrieval, storage, preservation, analysis and synthesis, and assessment of information. Conclusions show that in the 21st Century, the electronic health record, when considered in its local, regional, national and international dimensions, resents issues that are adequate to the purposeful activity of information professionals, and constitutes research field for the information science, which can contribute to health improvement and, simultaneously, can expand, test, and refine its theories, hypotheses, and methodologies.

The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

by Pavel Roshanov

Federated healthcare record server--the Synapses paradigm

by Peter Given

Proceedings of Second Annual Conference of the Helthcare Informatics Society of Ireland,
|November 1997
Grimson W, Berry D, Grimson J, Stephens G, Felton E, Given P, O'Moore R.

Patient result validation services

by Peter Given

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Elsevier Science Publishers Volume 50, No. 2
July 1996
Boran G, Given P, O'Moore R.

Supporting interoperability between medical knowledge-based systems: experience from pilot implementations

by Peter Given

Clinica Chimica Acta (222). Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. 23-35
1993
Boran GP, Given PG, Grimson JB, O'Moore RR.

A Summary Care Record Architecture based on HL7 CDA and SOA

by Peter Given

Proceedings of 14th Annual Conference of the Health Informatics Society of Ireland, Dublin
|November 19, 2009
P Given

The application of distributed object technology to integrating the electronic healthcare record

by Peter Given

Proceedings of Second Annual Conference of the Helthcare Informatics Society of Ireland,
|November 1997
D Berry, W Grimson, J Grimson, E Felton, G Stephens, R O'Moore, P Given

Sharing Information in the ICU – The Synapses Record-based Approach

by Peter Given

The Annual Scientific Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Association of Ireland
April 1997
Peter Given, E Felton, J Grimson, W Grimson, R Hayes, R O'Moore, G Stephens, C Kirkham, R Kirkham

Computerised Management Systems for General Practitioners: A comparison of two methodologies

by Peter Given

Proceedings Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE) '93
1993
Peter Given, M Sinnott, P Brosnan, G Boran, B Carr, J Feely, J Grimson, R O'Moore

Radiaoctivity in Cigarette

by Prof.Dr. İbrahim USLU

Turkish Journal of nuclear Sciences Volume 25 no:2 pp 1998
ibrahim Uslu, E. Tanker, M.L. Aksu

Cigarette is known to be hazardous to health due to nicotine and tar it contains. This is indicated on cigarette... more Cigarette is known to be hazardous to health due to nicotine and tar it contains. This is indicated on cigarette packets by health warnings. However there is less known hazard of smoking due to intake of radioactive compounds by inhalation. This study dwells upon the radioactive hazard of smoking.

Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship

by Mary Bryson

Jackie Stacey and Mary Bryson

Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future... more Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future that it wills into being through the overcoming of adversity. This article traces the warped temporalities of cancer survivorship, exploring its queer dimensions by combining theoretical discussions with readings of two lesbian interventions that address normative visions and narrations of healthy/diseased bodies. Cancer survivorship in each case becomes a poetic narration of desire and disease through the queering of temporality. The authors argue that the extent to which cancer's time warp here belongs to queer temporality depends on whether the queerness refers only to the odd, the uncanny, the indeterminate and the undecidable. Or if, instead, cancer's time warp is queer in the sense that sexuality is already present in cancer's disturbance to temporality. In so far as queer carries with it the traces of sexualities deemed undesirable and perverse, then such connections move beyond an analogous and into an ontological register.

Context-aware information adaptation in collaborative settings

by Afsaneh Doryab

Ph.D. Thesis

Context-aware information retrieval helps providing resources that are relevant to the current situation of users. In... more Context-aware information retrieval helps providing resources that are relevant to the current situation of users. In many work environments, carrying out a task demands massive information access and management. Context-aware computing in such settings can reduce the need for manual information retrieval and assist the users in bringing forward relevant resources and hence decreasing the time and effort needed to manage and update the information.
So far, research in context-aware computing has mainly focused on adapting the devices and systems to the individual user’s need or behaviour. The system detects different patterns of a user’s work and adapts accordingly. However, in a collaborative work environment such as a hospital, adaptive information retrieval goes beyond covering the need of individuals, as clinical tasks often involve several users working concurrently sharing systems, devices and documents.
This thesis proposes an approach to the problem of context-aware information retrieval in multi-user collaborative environments with public shared devices. We identify three sub problems to be addressed;
1) detection of the situation in which the device is present; 2) recognition of sequential multiple concurrent activities in the observable space of the device; and 3) adaptation of the device to present the relevant information to current situation.
For the problem of detecting the situation of a device, we argue that in order to provide more precise information adaptation on different devices spread in a ubiquitous shared environment, the context of a device should be weighted. This can be done by recognizing not only the contextual elements related to that device (e.g., location and time) but also the situation pattern in which the device is present. For this, we introduce a method called ‘L-P-A Walk’ that identifies such situation patterns in the observable space of a device and helps weighting context elements that matter for that situation.
For the problem of activity recognition, we address the issues of i) multiple concurrent activities and ii) sequential dependency between activities. For the former, we propose joint- and parallel-learning mod els; and to address the latter, we add virtual and historical evidence as features to the learning models. We perform classification on the data and evaluate the output by proposing a distance based method. The best performance is obtained in parallel learning with historical evidence.
For the problem of information adaptation, we point to the fact that most real world situations have been experienced at least once before either in the same or a different setting. We argue that despite slight differences, there is always a most similar situation to the current one that can provide an initial set of handling or actions that might also be relevant to the new situation. This initial set is then updated, evolved, and adapted to the specific characteristics/profile of the current situation. By incorporating collaborative filtering, we dynamically provide most relevant types of information that has been used in similar
situations. An evaluation of our approach with clinicians shows
that the proposed mechanism is able to i) incrementally build and
update the model of relevant information for every situation based
on similar past cases and ii) incorporate users’ information choices as implicit feedback and retrain the model to provide more satisfactory information assistance.

Health information Technology

by Molly King

Dorr, David A., Molly M. King. 2011. Chapter in Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults, edited by Cheryl Schraeder and Paul S. Shelton. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell.

Teaching a web-based course in health informatics

by Pascal Calarco

With LU Turman, P Self.  Reference Services Review.  32(1), Spring 2004: 21-25.

Librarians at Virginia Commonwealth University teach a course in Health Informatics as part of a distance learning... more Librarians at Virginia Commonwealth University teach a course in Health Informatics as part of a distance learning Doctoral program for allied health professionals. This paper discusses the experience of developing and delivering a Web-based course for the curriculum. Lessons learned fall into the categories of communication, technology, and resources.

Maintaining redundancy in the coordination of medical emergencies

by Aksel Tjora