Building an Open Health Data Analytics Platform: a Case Study Examining Relationships and Trends in Seniority and Performance in Healthcare Providers.

With a movement toward an open data-driven approach, governments worldwide are releasing public data in an effort to increase transparency. Despite the availability of this data, many factors make it difficult for anyone to extract knowledge from it. The relationship between seniority and performance is a controversial issue in many fields; using an open and reproducible framework, we investigate the relationship in open healthcare data.

Health Care in the Community: Developing Academic/Practice Partnerships for Care Coordination and Managing Transitions.

The delivery of health care is quickly changing from an acute care to a community-based setting. Faculty development and mastery in the use of new technologies, such as high-definition simulation and virtual communities are crucial for effective student learning outcomes. Students' benefits include opportunities for hands-on experience in various patient care scenarios, realtime faculty feedback regarding their critical reasoning and clinical performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and access to a nonthreatening learning environment.

A framework for describing first time breastfeeding Latina mothers' information needs, information seeking behaviors, resources & communication processes.

A literature review highlights the need to use multiple concepts to describe and understand First Time Breastfeeding (FTBF) Latina mothers information needs, information seeking behaviors, communication processes, and resources used to initiate, continue and prevent premature weaning. A framework for describing these concepts integrates 5 major theoretical perspectives.

Glucose testing and insufficient follow-up of abnormal results: a cohort study.

Background: More than 6 million Americans have undiagnosed diabetes. Several national organizations endorse screening for diabetes by physicians, but actual practice is poorly understood. Our objectives were to measure the rate, the predictors and the results of glucose testing in primary care, including rates of follow-up for abnormal values.