Medicine
Achieving Nationwide Interoperability in eHealth Exchange Now known as the eHealth Exchange, the nationwide health information network that Blumenthal referred to in 2011 consists of standards, services, and policies for secure exchange over the Internet. As is the...
Medicine
Foundational Interoperability Standards Adopted by the ONC In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011, Dr. David Blumenthal, who was at that time head of the ONC, defined two conditions that were required to make health information exchange...
data mining
Implant screw mechanics The screw joint consists of the two parts tightened together by a screw, such as an abutment and an implant being held together by a screw. The interplay of screw joint separating forces (external) and clamping forces (internal) affect screw...
MATLAB
Basics of screws The screw, a simple machine, is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder, used either as a fastener or as a force and motion modifier. Screws take many forms; the most common form consists of a cylindrical shaft with helical grooves or ridges...
data mining, Medicine
Tongue Cancer The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates more than 30,000 new cases of oral and pharyngeal cancer are diagnosed each year . One of the most commonly affected sites of oral cancer is the lateral border of the tongue and squamous cell...
Computer
POWER RECONFIGURATION ALGORITHMS We present a fast, efficient method for power distribution network reconfiguration. This is a heuristic algorithm for assigning sources to supply as many loads with power as possible, favoring loads of higher priority over loads of...
Medicine
WebMD Platform What is it? WebMD is basically a public health information services provider. It is an online platform that readily makes available, health information, expertise, advice, as well as healthcare collaboration. WebMD has been around for almost 20 years....
Medicine
HealthCare.Gov Website What is it? HealthCare.gov is a health insurance marketplace website that is owned by the federal government through the department of health and human services (HHS). Healthcare.gov website was mandated under the provisions of the Affordable...
Medicine
Epic E.H.R Systems What is it? Epic E.H.R systems are electronic health records systems that are software After the HITECH act was passed, Epic was one of the major companies that took bold steps to design, build and customized electronic healthcare management systems...
Medicine
BlueStar Diabetes Management System What is it? WellDoc’s BlueStar Diabetes Management System (BlueStar DMS) is one of WellDoc’s interactive management programs on a mobile platform which supports and manages chronic type 2 diabetes. WellDoc also provides mobile based...
Medicine
BioSense 2.0. What is it? CDC’s BioSense Surveillance System is an integrated program for the early detection and rapid response of bioterrorism related diseases and infections. This program allows for state and local health departments that allows them to report in a...
Medicine
Google Health™ What is it? Google Health is (actually was) a personal health information centralization service (commonly referred to as a personal health record service) which was provided by Google Inc., from 2008 to 2011. Google Health looked like a search engine...
Communication, Computer
NETWORK DISCOVERY When a generator stops working or a line becomes faulty, the topology of the network changes. Pathways between sources and loads may no longer be viable. There is no sure way of knowing what components will remain viable because anything in an...
Medicine
Framing The Complexity Of Hit Systems Design HIT Systems are complex in so many ways. Besides the fact that they have multiple users, implementation environments, moving parts, standards etc., etc. they need to talk to each other, prevent medical errors, and be...
Medicine
Complex Hit System A complex HIT system is one that involves multiple stakeholders especially end users whose environments cannot be easily anticipated, and seeks to integrate multiple functioning technologies to solve intrinsically complex system tasks and issues in...
Computer
The formal appeals process The first step in the formal appeals process is to appoint a representative that will act on behalf of the organization. The representative may be an attorney, an HIM professional or any professional that can assist and provide expertise in...
