Core measures are standard metrics to reflect the processes of care provided by hospitals. Hospitals in the United States are expected to extract data from electronic health records, automated computation of core measures, and electronic submission of the quality measures data. Traditional manual calculation processes are time intensive and susceptible to error.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPTXT Finder was developed to reduce the manual efforts necessary to map from clinical variables in a decision support system to data elements in an EHR. The descriptions in a data dictionary may be inadequate for pinpointing data elements that represent a clinical variable. Semantics implied in taxonomy and real usage of the element are two important supporting information sources.
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February 2008
When machine learning algorithms are applied to data collected during the course of clinical care, it is generally accepted that the data has not been consistently collected. The absence of expected data elements is common and the mechanism through which a data element is missing often involves the clinical relevance of that data element in a specific patient. Therefore, the absence of data may have information value of its own.
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September 2007
Electronic health records are designed to provide online transactional data recording and reporting services that support the health care process. The characteristics of clinical data as it originates during the process of clinical documentation, including issues of data availability and complex representation models can make data mining applications challenging. Data preprocessing and transformation are required before one can apply data mining to clinical data.
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