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Electronic Health Record Design Considerations in Responding to Incidences of Highly Infectious Diseases: Clinical Workflows and Exception Handling

December 10, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons
Adoption of Electronic Health Record systems in all care settings has become widespread. EHRs can support and revolutionize the way that public health is protected in the event of an outbreak of a highly infectious disease. In particular, EHRs can support

(NISTIR 7804-1)Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records: Empirically Based Use Cases for Validating Safety-Enhanced Usability and Guidelines for Standardization

October 7, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Sandra S. Prettyman, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Latkany A. Paul, Michael C. Gibbons, Sheryl L. Taylor
This document provides the empirical rationale for critical patient safety related usability guidelines for standardization and requirements for validation testing to ensure safety-enhanced design. These standardization guidelines are targeted at

Technical Basis for User Interface Design of Health IT

August 17, 2015
Author(s)
Michael E. Wiklund, Jonathan Kendler, Limor Hochberg, Matthew B. Weinger
This document is intended to help EHR developers plan and implement a user-centered design for their EHR systems. It includes user interface design principles that are customized for EHR environment. Specifically, it provides: (1) Descriptions of the

Uncoordinated Scheduling Strategies for BAN-to-BAN Interference Mitigation

August 13, 2015
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to the human body. Medical and some other applications impose stringent constraints on battery powered BAN

Improving Clinical Workflow in Ambulatory Care: Implemented Recommendations in an Innovation Prototype for the Veterans Health Administration

August 3, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Emily S. Patterson, Mala Ramaiah, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Robert Calco, Greg Matton, Anne Miller, Ellen Makar, Jorge Ferrer
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented targeted recommendations from human factors workflow methods that could be used in ambulatory (outpatient) care settings to improve the fit of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) with

Overview of the TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track

April 22, 2015
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Clinical Decision Support Track fosters research on systems that link electronic health records with information that is relevant for patient care. TREC 2014 is the initial year of the track. The focus of the first year

(NISTIR 8042) Integrating Electronic Health Records into Clinical Workflow: An Application of Human Factors Modeling Methods to Specialty Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Ophthalmology

February 10, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons
In this report, a human factors workflow modeling tool, process mapping, was used to visualize and document insights and the end-user needs to improve EHR workflow for clinicians in two specialty outpatient care settings: 1) Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob

A 4D Immersive Platform to Visualize RF Propagation in BAN

January 1, 2015
Author(s)
John G. Hagedorn, Kamran Sayrafian, Judith E. Terrill, Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost
Recent advances in micro-electronics technology to build small radio-enabled implantable and wearable medical sensors have sparked considerable interest in body area networks. Understanding the characteristics of radio frequency propagation inside and

Energy Harvesting from the Human Leg Motion

July 23, 2014
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Antonio M. Possolo, Nathalie Yarkony
Kinetic energy harvested from the human body motion seems to be one of the most attractive and convenient solution for wearable wireless sensors in healthcare applications. Due to their small size, such sensors typically have a very limited battery-powered

Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective

June 13, 2014
Author(s)
Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a wireless network of wearable or implantable computing devices. A BAN typically consists of several miniaturized radio-enabled body sensor/actuator that communicate with a single coordinator. Medical applications usually

Color Error in the Digital Camera Image Capture Process

April 1, 2014
Author(s)
John Penczek, Paul A. Boynton, Jolene Splett
The color error of images taken by digital cameras is evaluated with respect to its sensitivity to the image capture conditions. A parametric study was conducted to investigate the dependence of image color error on camera technology, illumination spectra

An Interoperability Test Bed for Distributed Healthcare Applications

March 24, 2014
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick
Standards provide the foundation for ensuring interoperability, but if they are not implemented correctly or consistently, their value is diminished leading to problematic installations and higher costs. Conformance and Interoperability testing is

(NISTIR 7988) Integrating Electronic Health Records into Clinical Workflow: An Application of Human Factors Modeling Methods to Ambulatory Care

March 11, 2014
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, David Brick, Ayse P. Gurses, Ant Ozok, Debora Simmons, Michael C. Gibbons
This report recommendations provide a first step in moving from a billing-centered perspective (i.e., focusing on ensuring maximum and timely reimbursement) to a clinician-centered perspective where the EHR design supports clinical cognitive work, such as

A Simulation Platform to Study Inter-BAN Interference

December 2, 2013
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, John G. Hagedorn, Martina Barbi, Judith E. Terrill, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensor nodes that are located inside or in proximity to the human body. Many applications of BANs (e.g. physiological monitoring) require reliable

INTER-BAN INTERFERENCE EVALUATION & MITIGATION: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

September 27, 2013
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti, Roberto Verdone
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensor nodes that are located inside or in proximity to the human body. Many applications of BANs (e.g. physiological monitoring) require reliable

The TREC Medical Records Track

September 25, 2013
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a series of annual workshops designed to build the infrastructure for large-scale evaluation of search systems and thus improve the state-of-the-art. Each workshop is organized around a set "tracks", challenge

(NISTIR 7952) Toward a Shared Approach for Ensuring Patient Safety with Enhanced Workflow Design for Electronic Health Records -- Summary of the Workshop

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Ant Ozok, Ayse P. Gurses, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Emily S. Patterson, Debora Simmons
On April 19, 2013, 47 participants met at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, MD, for a NIST-sponsored full-day EHR Usability and Patient Safety Roundtable: Supporting Patient Safety Through EHR Design. In

Principles for Profiling Healthcare Data Communication Standards

July 22, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick
Healthcare organizations often have many proprietary heterogeneous information systems that must exchange data reliably. Seamlessly sharing information among systems is complex. The widely adopted HL7 version 2 messaging standard has helped the process of

Overview of the TREC 2012 Medical Records Track

June 28, 2013
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, William Hersh
The TREC Medical Records track fosters research that allows electronic health records to be retrieved based on the semantic content of free-text fields. The ability to find records by matching semantic content will enhance clinical care and support the

Distributed Coverage Optimization in a Network of Static and Mobile Sensors

June 17, 2013
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Jalal Habibi, Amir Aghdam
This paper proposes efficient schemes to increase sensing coverage in a network composed of both mobile and static sensors. The proposed deployment techniques properly assign a virtual weight to every point in the sensing field, based on the information
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