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As the exchange of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) among different healthcare providers has become a point of interest, it poses serious security and privacy concerns. Previous work proposed to offer medical information exchange has been partially secure, expensive (in terms of messages exchanged), and sometimes requires special hardware, like smart cards, to be present with the users. In this paper,...
Complex clinical decision-making could be facilitated by using population health data to inform clinicians. In two previous studies, we interviewed 16 infectious disease experts to understand complex clinical reasoning. For this study, we focused on answers from the experts on how clinical reasoning can be supported by population-based Big-Data. We found cognitive strategies such as trajectory tracking,...
Wearable digital self-tracking technologies for monitoring individuals' health condition have become more accessible to the public in recent years with the development of connected portable devices, such as smart phones, smart watches, smart bands, and other personal biometric monitoring devices. Mining behavioural patterns from such wearable data along with other available sensory data, has the potential...
Regular jogging help people maintain their health. However, it is burdensome to keep working out without clear motivation. Although mobile applications has been developed to overcome the challenge, little is known about the guildelines for designing mobile applications that address the needs and barriers of joggers. In this study, we identified joggers' needs and barriers and used them to produce...
Digital dating abuse is carried out using text messages, emails and social media sites and has become a major mental health crisis among the college-going population. Existing technology and non-technology based intervention programs do not provide assistance at the onset of abuse. The goal of our project is to create a mobile phone application that can detect digital dating abuse. To create the user-interface...
This poster presents an innovative user-support method for structured data entry that resulted from working with a large patient registry reporting group in a leading hospital, tasked with efficient electronic medical record discretization. It is a method of using syntactic constraints on various fields during web-forms coding, to auto-select the fields where values belong, this allows coders to spend...
Current healthcare practice is transitioning from a provider-centered model to a patient-centered model of care, where patients are no longer passive recipients of care, but are encouraged to actively engage in and take greater responsibility for medical decision-making. As part of this trend patients are gaining access to larger and more diverse sets of medical texts through Electronic Medical Record...
Virtual patients are computer simulations that behave in the same way that an actual patient would in a medical context. Since these characters are simulated, they can provide realistic yet repetitive practice in patient interaction since they can represent a wide range of patients and each scenario can be practiced until the student achieves competency. However, the development costs for virtual...
Virtual technology and immersive experiences are not very often associated with older adults. Recent studies suggest that exercise augmentation using flat screen-based virtual environments, which allow nursing home residents to experience virtual places different from the nursing home, can increase the intrinsic motivation of nursing home residents. In this paper, we increase the immersive properties...
Some believe that today's young and tech-savvy generation will eagerly adopt the latest health tracking technologies. However, we know little about the tracking practices of young adults, and in particular how they use technologies to journal their daily fitness activities and diet. Drawing from practice theory, this study uses Savolainen's concept of information practice to examine the life contexts...
Virtual patients are computer simulations that behave in the same way that an actual patient would in a medical context. Since these characters are simulated, they can provide realistic yet repetitive practice in patient interaction since they can represent a wide range of patients and each scenario can be practiced until the student achieves competency. However, the development costs for virtual...
Healthcare practitioners are increasingly using search functionality embedded in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software to search for relevant evidence summaries at point of care. We introduce a learning to rank approach that exploits information carried in EMR data and UpToDate user accounts to (significantly) improve ranking results, compared to a comparable model that does not exploit such features.
Integrated use of electronic health records (EHRs) seem both promising and necessary in improving the quality and delivery of health services. This allows healthcare providers access to information they require to provide rapid patient care. Of course, when sensitive information is shared among a group of people within or across organizations, enforceable security and privacy control over the information...
Rehabilitation exercises are an important means for gaining mobility and strength after injuries or surgery. Self-exercising in between physio-therapy sessions is vital for effective rehabilitation. Yet, many people do not follow exercise regimes, which can hamper their recovery. This study proposes GEAR - a mobile GamE Assisted Rehabilitation system - to engage users in self-exercising and to improve...
Over the past decade, the application of data science techniques to clinical data has allowed practitioners and researchers to develop a sundry of analytical models. These models have traditionally relied on structured data drawn from Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Yet, a large portion of EMR data remains unstructured, primarily held within clinical notes. While recent work has produced techniques...
People and patients are increasingly using the internet to search for health information, but finding the right terms to search requires iterative search and query reformulation [1], which may be difficult for lay persons who do not have much medical knowledge. To solve the problem, we propose an interactive searching mechanism where resources are annotated using existing healthcare database and search...
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