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The End User Computing Strategy of Using Excel VBA in Promoting Nursing Informatics in Taiwan

  • Chang, Polun;Hsu, Chiao-Ling;Hou, I-Ching;Tu, Ming Hsiang;Liu, Che-Wei
    • Perspectives in Nursing Science
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.45-58
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    • 2008
  • The nursing informatics has been booming in Taiwan since 2003 when we started to use the end user computing strategy to promote it. We used Excel 2003, which was well known and used by our clinical nurses, as well as the embedded VBA to teach them how simple information applications could and should be built to meet their information management needs in order to support their professional responsibility. Many cost-effective projects were successfully done and the importance and potentials of nursing informatics started to be noticed. Our training strategy and materials are introduced in this paper.

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Perspectives on Clinical Informatics: Integrating Large-Scale Clinical, Genomic, and Health Information for Clinical Care

  • Choi, In Young;Kim, Tae-Min;Kim, Myung Shin;Mun, Seong K.;Chung, Yeun-Jun
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.186-190
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    • 2013
  • The advances in electronic medical records (EMRs) and bioinformatics (BI) represent two significant trends in healthcare. The widespread adoption of EMR systems and the completion of the Human Genome Project developed the technologies for data acquisition, analysis, and visualization in two different domains. The massive amount of data from both clinical and biology domains is expected to provide personalized, preventive, and predictive healthcare services in the near future. The integrated use of EMR and BI data needs to consider four key informatics areas: data modeling, analytics, standardization, and privacy. Bioclinical data warehouses integrating heterogeneous patient-related clinical or omics data should be considered. The representative standardization effort by the Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology (CBO) aims to provide uniquely identified concepts to include molecular pathology terminologies. Since individual genome data are easily used to predict current and future health status, different safeguards to ensure confidentiality should be considered. In this paper, we focused on the informatics aspects of integrating the EMR community and BI community by identifying opportunities, challenges, and approaches to provide the best possible care service for our patients and the population.

순차패턴 마이닝을 이용한 상병의 연관성 분석

  • Jin, Jong-Sik;Park, Hui-Jun;Lee, Jeong-Hyeon;Kim, Yun-Nyeon;Yun, Gyeong-Il;Eom, Heung-Seop
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.614-618
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    • 2007
  • 데이터 마이닝 기법 중 순차 패턴 마이닝(Sequential Pattern Mining)은 연관 규칙에 시간의 개념을 추가하여 시간의 흐름에 따른 항목(item)들의 상호 연관성을 찾아내는 것이다. 본 연구의 목적은 순차적인 상병의 발생 가능성이 높은 상병 군의 패턴을 찾아내어 이를 모형화함으로써 차후에 발생된 상병을 예방하고 이를 통하여 환자와의 관계를 관리하여 보다 나은 의료서비스를 제공하는데 있다.

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CDISC Transformer: a metadata-based transformation tool for clinical trial and research data into CDISC standards

  • Park, Yu-Rang;Kim, Hye-Hyeon;Seo, Hwa-Jeong;Kim, Ju-Han
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.5 no.10
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    • pp.1830-1840
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    • 2011
  • CDISC (Clinical Data Interchanging Standards Consortium) standards are to support the acquisition, exchange, submission and archival of clinical trial and research data. SDTM (Study Data Tabulation Model) for Case Report Forms (CRFs) was recommended for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory submissions since 2004. Although the SDTM Implementation Guide gives a standardized and predefined collection of submission metadata 'domains' containing extensive variable collections, transforming CRFs to SDTM files for FDA submission is still a very hard and time-consuming task. For addressing this issue, we developed metadata based SDTM mapping rules. Using these mapping rules, we also developed a semi-automatic tool, named CDISC Transformer, for transforming clinical trial data to CDISC standard compliant data. The performance of CDISC Transformer with or without MDR support was evaluated using CDISC blank CRF as the 'gold standard'. Both MDR and user inquiry-supported transformation substantially improved the accuracy of our transformation rules. CDISC Transformer will greatly reduce the workloads and enhance standardized data entry and integration for clinical trial and research in various healthcare domains.