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Erschienen in: Journal of Medical Systems 5/2011

01.10.2011 | Original Paper

Extracting Insights from Electronic Health Records: Case Studies, a Visual Analytics Process Model, and Design Recommendations

verfasst von: Taowei David Wang, Krist Wongsuphasawat, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Erschienen in: Journal of Medical Systems | Ausgabe 5/2011

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Abstract

Current electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitate the storage, retrieval, persistence, and sharing of patient data. However, the way physicians interact with EHRs has not changed much. More specifically, support for temporal analysis of a large number of EHRs has been lacking. A number of information visualization techniques have been proposed to alleviate this problem. Unfortunately, due to their limited application to a single case study, the results are often difficult to generalize across medical scenarios. We present the usage data of Lifelines2 (Wang et al. 2008), our information visualization system, and user comments, both collected over eight different medical case studies. We generalize our experience into a visual analytics process model for multiple EHRs. Based on our analysis, we make seven design recommendations to information visualization tools to explore EHR systems.
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Metadaten
Titel
Extracting Insights from Electronic Health Records: Case Studies, a Visual Analytics Process Model, and Design Recommendations
verfasst von
Taowei David Wang
Krist Wongsuphasawat
Catherine Plaisant
Ben Shneiderman
Publikationsdatum
01.10.2011
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Medical Systems / Ausgabe 5/2011
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9718-x

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