Training providers: beyond the basics of electronic health records.

Background: Training is a critical part of health information technology implementations, but little emphasis is placed on post-implementation training to support day-to-day activities. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of post-implementation training on key electronic health record activities.

Methods: Based on feedback from providers and requests for technical support, we developed two classes designed to improve providers' effectiveness with the electronic health record.

Managing personal health information in distributed research network environments.

Background: Studying rare outcomes, new interventions and diverse populations often requires collaborations across multiple health research partners. However, transferring healthcare research data from one institution to another can increase the risk of data privacy and security breaches.

Methods: A working group of multi-site research programmers evaluated the need for tools to support data security and data privacy.

Managing protected health information in distributed research network environments: automated review to facilitate collaboration.

Background: Multi-site health sciences research is becoming more common, as it enables investigation of rare outcomes and diseases and new healthcare innovations. Multi-site research usually involves the transfer of large amounts of research data between collaborators, which increases the potential for accidental disclosures of protected health information (PHI). Standard protocols for preventing release of PHI are extremely vulnerable to human error, particularly when the shared data sets are large.

Effects of between visit physician-patient communication on Diabetes Recognition Program scores.

Objective: To determine whether physicians who interact with their patients between office visits using secure messaging and phone provide better care for patients with diabetes when controlling for physician, patient and care center characteristics.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States.

A simple account of cyclopean edge responses in macaque v2.

It has been shown recently that neurons in V2 respond selectively to the edges of figures defined only by disparity (cyclopean edges). These responses are orientation selective, often preferring similar orientations for cyclopean and luminance contours, suggesting that they may support a cue-invariant representation of contours. Here, we investigate the extent to which processing of purely local visual information (in the vicinity of the receptive field) might explain such results, using the most impoverished stimulus possible containing a cyclopean edge (a circular patch of random dots divided into two regions by a single edge).