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Revenues for the information technology (IT) industry have grown 10 times over the past decade in India. Although this growth has resulted in increased job opportunities, heavy workloads, unhealthy eating habits, and reduced family time are significant downfalls. To understand lifestyle choices of I...
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PMID: 20155548
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Of the 930 articles examined, 474 (51%) were identified as research articles. Survey (n = 174, 37.1%) was the most common methodology employed, quantitative descriptive statistics (n = 298, 63.5%) the most used analytical technique, and applied topics (n = 332, 70%) the most common type of subject s...
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PMID: 19626146
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Systems biology represents an experimental approach to biology that attempts to study biological systems in a holistic rather than an atomistic manner. Ideally this involves gathering dynamic and global data sets as well as phenotypic data from different levels of the biological information hierarch...
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PMID: 18579616
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Nowadays, modern information technology (IT) has been gained great development. How to use the advanced IT to protect, spread and develop Chinese traditional culture of acupuncture is an important topic at the moment. Based on expounding characteristics of modern IT, the present article analyzed its...
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PMID: 18807724
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We describe the key components of this approach, outline the benefits we believe have accrued, and describe the steps being taken to build upon lessons learned....
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PMID: 18477599
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Even though long working hours were common among IT professionals in Finland, sleep debt and insomnia were not. Work-related factors were associated with insufficient sleep....
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PMID: 18216029
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This article considers some of the problems of the interpretation of information from other national arthroplasty registers when setting up a new register. In order for the most useful information to be available from registers much international co-operation is required between all those responsibl...
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PMID: 18310747
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The focus of this article is to provide the oral and maxillofacial surgeon with an overview of some of the recent information and computer technologies available in the marketplace as they relate to diagnostic imaging, implantology, orthognathic surgery, and craniofacial surgery. In so doing, the au...
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PMID: 18194740
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We consider the implications of our findings for future research, the refinement of IT risk assessment frameworks and tools, and the training of risk management professionals....
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PMID: 18304108
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The considerable breakthroughs of the physics during the last 30 years allowed us to conceive components, devices or materials at the nanoscale level and to manipulate them. Applications are already envisaged in the field of the medical and pharmaceutical sciences. These nanotechnologies will be app...
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PMID: 18387270
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We have discussed the existing workflow systems and the trends in applications of workflow based systems....
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PMID: 17931570
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We describe the OBO Converter, a Java tool to convert files from OBO format to Web Ontology Language (OWL) (and vice versa) that can also be used as a Protégé Tab plug-in. It uses the OBO to OWL mapping provided by the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO) (a joint effort of OBO develop...
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PMID: 17496317
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We ask whether developments in computer technology, which have both productive and cultural components, provide a basis for generational formation and identity and whether generational discourse is invoked to create cultures of difference in the workplace. Qualitative data from a sample of Informati...
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PMID: 17610624
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We conducted a web-based investigation with Japanese IT-related company employees in 53 company unions. The questionnaire consisted of individual attributes, employment characteristics, working hour characteristics, company size and profitability, personal characteristics (i.e., Growth Need Strength...
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PMID: 17634697
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We also describe a methodology for creating suggested enriching assertions by identifying patterns in GO terms, mapping these patterns to new, specific relationships, and matching term substrings to concepts. Using this methodology, a predicted assertion was made for 62% of GO terms that matched one...
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PMID: 17011833
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The study demonstrated usefulness of concept-based and context-sensitive queries for enhancing the precision of retrieval from a digital library of semi-structured clinical guideline documents. Concept-based searches outperformed free-text queries, especially when baseline precision was low. In gene...
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PMID: 17213502
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We describe a model of clinical information designed to make health information systems properly interoperable and safely computable. The model is a response to a number of categories of requirements, ranging from the semantic to the performance of software at runtime. We argue that the starting poi...
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PMID: 17911819
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We describe a recent evaluation of consumer perceptions of a health information system, Genetics Health Reference. This study illustrates how the framework may be applied to provide some direction and insights into ongoing consumer health informatics research. While this model represents a work in p...
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PMID: 17911899
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For improving quality and efficiency of health delivery under the well-known burdens, the health service paradigm has to change from organization-centered over process-controlled to personal health. The growing complexity of highly distributed and fully integrated healthcare settings can only be man...
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PMID: 17911701
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We have developed a methodology for accurately representing canonical domain ontologies within the OBO Foundry. This is achieved by adding an extension to the semantics for relationships in the biomedical ontologies that allows for treating canonical information as default. Conclusions drawn from de...
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PMID: 17925014
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The first U.S. national health care information technology (IT) coordinator estimates that if the current rate of interoperable electronic health record (EHR) adoption is sustained through 2014, it would create a launchpad for quality gain and health care spending reduction in excess of 50 percent i...
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PMID: 17303581
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This article suggests eight high-level concepts that can promote convergence by identifying analogies across fields of science and engineering. CONSERVATION: Many properties are conserved, through symmetries, parity laws, and feedback-regulated stabilities in complex adaptive systems. INDECISION: In...
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PMID: 17312250
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BACKGROUND: NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the Special Health Board responsible for supporting best practice in education, training and development for all staff groups within NHS Scotland. As part of its remit, the Knowledge Services Group within NES is responsible for the e-Library, a nationa...
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PMID: 17206994
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In early 2004, the majority of physicians did not regularly use basic, inexpensive, and widely available IT tools in clinical practice. Efforts to increase the use of IT in medicine should focus on practice-level barriers to adoption....
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PMID: 16879417
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This commentary on Scotblood meeting aimed to provide a highlight on four areas of new development in blood transfusion medicine, based on the abstracts provided by the invited speakers. Dr. Jerard Seghatchian would like to express his sincere thanks to Prof. Robin Fraser, Chairman of the Scotblood...
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PMID: 17107823
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The design and administration of a departmental computer network (Local Area Network) in anesthesiology and intensive care offer the opportunity to manage clinical information and control the work-flow. To improve the local network, after basic design, intelligence is necessary to maintain its effic...
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PMID: 16964536
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The application of virtual reality (VR) to rehabilitation is a young, interdisciplinary field where clinical implementation very rapidly follows scientific discovery and technological advancement. Implementation is often so rapid that demonstration of intervention efficacy by investigators, and esta...
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PMID: 16640462
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The author has surveyed a quarter of the accredited undergraduate computer science programs in the United States. More than half of these programs offer a 'social and ethical implications of computing' course taught by a computer science faculty member, and there appears to be a trend toward teachin...
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PMID: 16609720
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To date, information technology (IT) has not been widely adopted in the health sector in the developing countries. Information Technology may bring an improvement on health care delivery systems. It is one of the prime movers of globalization. Information technology infusion is the degree to which a...
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PMID: 16720950
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To analyze the benefit of a departmental IT group in comparison to support by hospital IT groups or system manufacturers in a completely digitized radiological department. The departmental IT group comprises a fulltime IT specialist, two student assistants and four clinical employees...
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PMID: 15611871
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The field of chemoinformatics was initially introduced to the pharmaceutical industry in 1995, with the first publication appearing in 1998. Since the introduction of the term and the practice, there has been much debate on the spelling and meaning of chemoinformatics. This article offers a single d...
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PMID: 15892243
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A complete picture archiving and communication system (PACS) installation is one of the largest projects a radiology department will undertake. Although technology issues are important, they often draw focus away from many other significant issues This paper describes in detail all of these other ne...
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PMID: 17411826
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A task-oriented questionnaire was designed, aiming to quickly assess competence with the use of computers. The questionnaire consisted of distinct computer-related skills, representing various competences in educational computer use. A total score from 0 to 49 was calculated upon completion of the q...
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PMID: 15642021
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I show that the special causal role of the genome hinges not on its informational status--it has none, or at least no more than computer programs have independent of our interpretations of them--but on its power literally to program the embryo, a power nicely illustrated in the use of polynucleotide...
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PMID: 16898205
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I want to exhibit the deeper metaphysical reasons why some common ways of describing the causal role of genes in development and evolution are problematic. Specifically, I show why using the concept of information in an intentional sense in genetics is inappropriate, even given a naturalistic accoun...
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PMID: 16898209
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Dealing with a cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment involves communication among clinicians, patients, families, friends and others affected by the illness. The hypothesis of this research is that an informatics system can effectively support the communication needs of cancer patients and their inf...
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PMID: 16779150
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The objectives of this project were to 1) use a multi-disciplinary pain assessment information model to identify concepts required in Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC), 2) submit the proposed LOINC codes to the LOINC committee, and 3) have LOINC names and codes created for oth...
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PMID: 16779423
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