Published in International journal of medical informatics
To summarize the findings from literature reviews with a view to identifying and exploring the key factors which impact on the success of an EHR implementation across different healthcare contexts. Despite the widely recognised benefits of electronic health records (EHRs), their full potential has not always been achieved, often as a consequence of...
Published in International journal of medical informatics
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need to simplify data collection for critically-ill patients, particularly for physicians relocated to the ICU setting. Herein we present a simple, reproducible, and highly-customizable manual-entry tool to track ICU patients using new HIPAA-compliant Google Big Query technology for parsing large dataset...
Published in International Journal of Medical Informatics
Background Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 31, 2020, governments have been enfaced with crisis for timely responses. The efficacy of these responses directly depends on the social behaviors of the target society. People react to these actions wi...
Published in International journal of medical informatics
The rapid global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has provoked a spike in demand for hospital care. Hospital systems across the world have been over-extended, including in Northern Italy, Ecuador, and New York City, and many other systems face similar challenges. As a result, decisions on how to best allocate very limited medical resources and design...
As the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide, chest X-ray radiography has also been used to detect COVID-19 infected pneumonia and assess its severity or monitor its prognosis in the hospitals due to its low cost, low radiation dose, and wide accessibility. However, how to more accurately and efficiently detect COVID-19 infected ...
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Background Electronic approaches are becoming more widely used to obtain informed consent for research participation. Electronic consent (e-consent) provides an accessible and versatile approach to the consenting process, which can be enhanced with audio-visual and interactive features to improve participant engagement and comprehension of study pr...
Published in International journal of medical informatics
The main objective of this paper is the reduction of the COVID-19 pandemic spread by increasing the degree of social distancing by using and upgrading the existing Medical Information System (MIS). The existing MIS MEDIS.NET, currently used in the largest health center in the Balkans, has been adapted and further developed. During the adaptation of...
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Objectives This study aimed to identify, describe and analyze priority areas for COVID-19 testing combining participatory surveillance and traditional surveillance. Design It was carried out a descriptive transversal study in the city of Caruaru, Pernambuco state, Brazil, within the period of 20/02/2020 to 05/05/2020. Data included all official rep...
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Objective The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has currently ravaged through the world, resulting in over thirteen million confirmed cases and over five hundred thousand deaths, a complete change in daily life as we know it, worldwide lockdowns, travel restrictions, as well as heightened hygiene measures and physical distancing. Being able to an...
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Objective Although lower respiratory infections (LRI) are among the leading causes of mortality in the US, their association with underlying factors and geographic variation have not been adequately examined. Methods In this study, explanatory variables (n = 46) including climatic, topographic, socio-economic, and demographic factors were compiled ...
