Strengthening information systems for heart health in Canada

McFarlane, Anne; Wielgosz, Andreas

doi:10.1016/s0828-282x(09)70158-8

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“…Cardiovascular diseases have increased along with the demand for productive data management tools in the cardiac care departments. A cardiovascular information system (CVIS) plays a vital role in monitoring, management, evaluation, and policy development related to cardiac diseases 30 . A CVIS integrates all cardiology requests, procedures, images, and reports.…”

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Recent Advancement of Clinical Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges

Islam

Poly

2018

Yearb Med Inform

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We selected 23 papers out of 1,026 unique abstracts for full-text review using our selection criteria, and 20 out of these 23 studies met all of our inclusion criteria. We focused on three major areas: 1) Ambulatory and inpatients clinical information systems; 2) Specialty information systems; and 3) Ancillary information systems. As CIS can support evidence-based practices that, in turn, improve patient's safety, quality and efficacy of care, advancement, acceptability, and adaptability of CIS have increased worldwide. Although, the demand for CIS functionality is rising fast, current CISs still have data integration challenges and lack of functionality to exchange patient information from all or some parts of the healthcare system. These limitations can be attributed to technical, human, and organizational factors Conclusion: Clinical information systems provide tremendous opportunities to reduce clinical errors such as medication errors and diagnostic errors and to support healthcare professionals by offering up-to-date patient information. They promise to improve workflow and efficiency of care, thus boosting the overall quality of healthcare.

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Recent Advancement of Clinical Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges

Islam

Poly

2018

Yearb Med Inform

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“…In Canada (for Pathology Cardiovascular) benefits of Information Systems are also documented [15]. In 2009 an electronic clinical support system to assist health professionals in managing the overall risk of cardiovascular disease in Australia decision was published.…”

Section: Information Technologies In Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Clinical Support System Based on Quality of Life Estimation

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Quality of life is a concept influenced by social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state factors. More specifically, the perceived quality of an individual's daily life is an assessment of their well-being or lack of it. In this context, information technologies may help on the management of services for healthcare of chronic patients such as estimating the patient quality of life and helping the medical staff to take appropriate measures to increase each patient quality of life. This paper describes a Quality of Life estimation system developed using information technologies and the application of data mining algorithms to access the information of clinical data of patients with cancer from Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck services of an oncology institution. The system was evaluated with a sample composed of 3013 patients. The results achieved show that there are variables that may be significant predictors for the Quality of Life of the patient: years of smoking (p value 0.049) and size of the tumor (p value < 0.001). In order to assign the variables to the classification of the quality of life the best accuracy was obtained by applying the John Platt's sequential minimal optimization algorithm for training a support vector classifier. In conclusion data mining techniques allow having access to patients additional information helping the physicians to be able to know the quality of life and produce a well-informed clinical decision.

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