Background The evolving concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and
ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing health care and medicine. Summarizing …

Objective There is a need to integrate the various theoretical frameworks and formalisms for
modeling clinical guidelines, workflows, and pathways, in order to move beyond providing …

Background The adoption and diffusion of clinical information systems has become one of
the critical benchmarks for achieving several healthcare organizational reform priorities …

INTRODUCTION: The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a 5-level emergency department
triage algorithm designed to facilitate the sorting and streaming of patients. The purpose of …

Objective The occurrence of pain accounts for billions of dollars in annual medical
expenditures; loss of quality of life and decreased worker productivity contribute to indirect …

Unexpected disease outbreaks and disasters are becoming primary issues facing our world.
The first points of contact either at the disaster scenes or emergency department exposed …

Objective: The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the risk factors
influencing the success of clinical information system projects. Methods: This study …

Objective To examine the association between the medical imaging utilization and
information related to patients' socioeconomic, demographic and clinical factors during the …

Objective: Little has been reported about the completeness and accuracy of data in existing
Australian clinical information systems. We examined the accuracy of the diagnoses of some …

Clinical decision making is a complex multi-stage process. Decision support can play an
important role at each stage of this process. At present, the majority of clinical decision …