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Opportunities for Using Health Information Technology for Elderly Care in the Emergency Departments: A Qualitative Study

By Ghazal Shagerdi, MSc; Haleh Ayatollahi, PhD; and Morteza Hemmat, PhD

Recently, several technologies have been developed for being used in the field of geriatric emergency medicine. As a large number of elderly patients visit emergency departments, the use of health information technology in this department can help to improve patient care and control the outcome...
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The Next-Generation Electronic Health Record in the ICU: A Focus on User-Technology Interface to Optimize Patient Safety and Quality

By Laleh Jalilian, MD, and Saif Khairat, PhD

As a knowledge-based field of medicine, critical care medicine has benefited from the use of the electronic health records (EHRs) in daily practice, as intensive care unit (ICU) patients generate thousands of pieces of clinical data each day. ICU teams must review, interpret, and take action on...
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Patients’ and Physicians’ Perspectives About Using Health Information Technology in Diabetes Management in Iran: A Qualitative Study

By Zari Dehnavi, MSc; Haleh Ayatollahi, PhD; Morteza Hemmat, PhD; and Rowshanak Abbasi, MD

Diabetes mellitus is known as a major chronic disease that has a number of consequences affecting individuals’ health conditions and socioeconomic aspects of life. These challenges require innovative interventions, such as self-management to improve patients’ health condition and...
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From NASA to Healthcare: Real-Time Data Analytics (Mission Control) Is Reshaping Healthcare Services

By Jessica Schlicher, MD, MBA; Matthew T. Metsker, PA-C, MPAS, MHA, FHM, CMPE; Hitul Shah, MS; and Haluk Demirkan, PhD

This is a case study of the implementation of a data and analytics-enabled Mission Control at one of the largest healthcare service providers in the state of Washington. Using data analytics and artificial intelligence, CHI-Franciscan (one of the largest healthcare organizations in state of...
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An Evaluative Study of a Health Information Management Program Following a Significant Curriculum Change--Part 1

By Jennifer Peterson, PhD, RHIA, CTR

The advent of electronic health records has led to significant changes in the role of health information management (HIM) professionals. These changes have required significant changes in the educational training required for HIM professionals,...
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Health Information Management Best Practices for Quality Health Data During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

By Mary H. Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, Kathy Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, FAHIMA, and Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA, CPHI, FAHIMA

The emergence of the deadly COVID-19 virus, resulting in the current world-wide pandemic requires effective information management and accurate data reporting to enable the healthcare community’s efforts to learn as much as possible about this specific strain of coronavirus and halt the...
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