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| Clement J McDonaldSummaryAffiliation: Regenstrief Institute Country: USA Publications
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Open Source software in medical informatics--why, how and whatClement J McDonald
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1001 W 10th St, RG5th Floor, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Int J Med Inform 69:175-84. 2003..This could produce a burst of innovation that would help solve the many problems of the health care system. We at the Regenstrief Institute are doing our part by moving all of our development to the open-source model...- The Indiana network for patient care: a working local health information infrastructure. An example of a working infrastructure collaboration that links data from five health systems and hundreds of millions of entriesClement J McDonald
Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1214-20. 2005..The network includes and delivers laboratory, radiology, dictation, and other documents to a majority of Indianapolis office practices. The INPC began operation seven years ago and is one of the first and best examples of an LHII... - LOINC, a universal standard for identifying laboratory observations: a 5-year updateClement J McDonald
Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Clin Chem 49:624-33. 2003.... - Can computer-generated evidence-based care suggestions enhance evidence-based management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? A randomized, controlled trialWilliam M Tierney
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, M200-OPW, Wishard Memorial Hospital, 1001 West 10th St, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Health Serv Res 40:477-97. 2005..Physician attitudes toward guidelines were mixed. CONCLUSIONS: Care suggestions shown to physicians and pharmacists on computer workstations had no effect on the delivery or outcomes of care for patients with reactive airways disease... - Failure of computerized treatment suggestions to improve health outcomes of outpatients with uncomplicated hypertension: results of a randomized controlled trialMichael D Murray
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Pharmacotherapy 24:324-37. 2004..To assess the effects of evidence-based treatment suggestions for hypertension made to physicians and pharmacists using a comprehensive electronic medical record system... - Use of a regional health information exchange to detect crossover of patients with MRSA between urban hospitalsAbel N Kho
Northwestern University, Division of General Internal Medicine, Affiliated Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:212-6. 2008..A significant portion of patients already known to be colonized or infected with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may not be identified at admission by neighboring hospitals... - Using information technology to improve the health care of older adultsMichael Weiner
Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University, Indianapolis 46202 2872, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:430-6. 2003..Information systems that improve communication among providers during these transitions have the potential to improve safety and reduce costs... - Effects of computerized guidelines for managing heart disease in primary careWilliam M Tierney
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:967-76. 2003..Electronic information systems have been proposed as one means to reduce medical errors of commission (doing the wrong thing) and omission (not providing indicated care)... - A software tool for removing patient identifying information from clinical documentsF Jeff Friedlin
Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:601-10. 2008..We conclude that MeDS successfully de-identified a wide range of medical documents from numerous sources and creates scrubbed reports that retain their interpretability, thereby maintaining their usefulness for research... - An effective computerized reminder for contact isolation of patients colonized or infected with resistant organismsAbel N Kho
Regenstrief Institute, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Int J Med Inform 77:194-8. 2008..To improve contact isolation rates among patients admitted to the hospital with a known history of infection with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE)... - A comparison of the completeness and timeliness of automated electronic laboratory reporting and spontaneous reporting of notifiable conditionsJ Marc Overhage
Regenstrief Institute, 410 W 10th St, Suite 2000, Indianapolis, IN 46202 3012, USA
Am J Public Health 98:344-50. 2008..We examined whether automated electronic laboratory reporting of notifiable-diseases results in information being delivered to public health departments more completely and quickly than is the case with spontaneous, paper-based reporting... - A randomized, controlled trial of clinical information shared from another institutionJ Marc Overhage
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Ann Emerg Med 39:14-23. 2002..We demonstrate the feasibility and potential value of increased access to patients' clinical information from another hospital while they are receiving care in the emergency department... - Structure, functions, and activities of a research support informatics sectionMichael D Murray
Health Care Data and Epidemiology Section, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, 1050 Wishard Boulevard RG 6, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:389-98. 2003.... - Conceptual alignment of electronic health record data with guideline and workflow knowledgeG Schadow
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1050 Wishard Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46260, USA
Int J Med Inform 64:259-74. 2001..This reuse is possible through a technique borrowed from natural language grammar and modal logic. The conceptual alignment of guidelines, WfM and the EHR could facilitate the sharing and deployment of guidelines in routine health care... - A simple error classification system for understanding sources of error in automatic speech recognition and human transcriptionAtif Zafar
School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University, 1001 West 10th Street, RG5 Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Int J Med Inform 73:719-30. 2004..The purpose of classifying errors into categories is to understand the underlying processes that generate these errors, so that measures can be taken to improve these processes... - Inpatient computer-based standing orders vs physician reminders to increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates: a randomized trialPaul R Dexter
Department of Medicine, Wishard Memorial Hospital and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA
JAMA 292:2366-71. 2004..Our findings suggest that computerized standing orders should be used more widely for this purpose... - Indianapolis I3: the third generation Integrated Advanced Information Management SystemsJulie J McGowan
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
J Med Libr Assoc 92:179-87. 2004.... - An evaluation of medical knowledge contained in Wikipedia and its use in the LOINC databaseJeff Friedlin
Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:283-7. 2010..76%) were mis-matches. The current release of RELMA and LOINC include Wikipedia descriptions of LOINC parts obtained as a direct result of this project... - Computerization can create safety hazards: a bar-coding near missClement J McDonald
Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
Ann Intern Med 144:510-6. 2006..Researchers should continue to study real-world implementation of computerized systems to understand their benefits and potential harms, and administrators and providers should seek ways to anticipate these harms and mitigate them... - A practical method of linking data from Medicare claims and a comprehensive electronic medical records systemMichael Weiner
Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Health Center, 1050 Wishard Blvd, 6th Fl, Indianapolis, IN 46202 2872, USA
Int J Med Inform 71:57-69. 2003..Linking US Medicare data with large databases used for everyday clinical practice is seldom described in detail in medical literature... - Using National Drug Codes and drug knowledge bases to organize prescription records from multiple sourcesLinas Simonaitis
Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 66:1743-53. 2009..The utility of National Drug Codes (NDCs) and drug knowledge bases (DKBs) in the organization of prescription records from multiple sources was studied... - A pilot study of usefulness of clinician-patient videoconferencing for making routine medical decisions in the nursing homeMark R Laflamme
Regenstrief Institute, Inc, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1380-5. 2005..To pilot and assess the role of videoconferencing in clinicians' medical decision-making and their interactions with nursing home residents (NHRs)... - Presentation of the Morris F. Collen Award to Clement J. McDonald, MDJ Marc Overhage
Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1050 Wishard Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2872, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:241-4. 2005 - Effectiveness of pharmacist care for patients with reactive airways disease: a randomized controlled trialMorris Weinberger
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
JAMA 288:1594-602. 2002..It is not known whether patient outcomes are enhanced by effective pharmacist-patient interactions... - Undertreatment of osteoporosis in women, based on detection of vertebral compression fractures on chest radiographyPhilip J Kroth
Regenstrief Institute, Inc, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 2:112-8. 2004..Physicians should be alert to the possible presence of vertebral compression fractures and take a more aggressive approach to treatment when a fracture is present... - Representing Patient Assessments in LOINC®Daniel J Vreeman
Regenstrief Institute, Inc and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2010:832-6. 2010..We continue adding to this "master question file" to further enable interoperable exchange, storage, and processing of assessment data... - Demonstrating the effects of an IAIMS on health care quality and costW M Tierney
Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 4:S41-6. 1997..Demonstrating the beneficial effects of integrated EMR systems will facilitate their incorporation into everyday clinical care... - Controlled trial of direct physician order entry: effects on physicians' time utilization in ambulatory primary care internal medicine practicesJ M Overhage
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Regenstrief Health Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 8:361-71. 2001..The authors hypothesized that physicians using the Gopher would not spend any more time writing orders than physicians using paper-based methods... - Electronic laboratory reporting: barriers, solutions and findingsJ M Overhage
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 7:60-6. 2001.... - The barriers to electronic medical record systems and how to overcome themC J McDonald
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 4:213-21. 1997..We just have to embrace them. One remaining problem is the efficient capture of physician information in a coded form. Research is still needed to solve this last problem... - Canopy computing: using the Web in clinical practiceC J McDonald
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis 46202, USA
JAMA 280:1325-9. 1998.... - A computerized reminder system to increase the use of preventive care for hospitalized patientsP R Dexter
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202, USA
N Engl J Med 345:965-70. 2001..4 percent vs. 27.6 percent, P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: A majority of hospitalized patients in this study were eligible for preventive measures, and computerized reminders significantly increased the rate of delivery of such therapies... - Pursuing integration of performance measures into electronic medical records: beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist medicationsM Weiner
Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 14:99-106. 2005.... - Hickam 2000: the maturation of, and linkages between, medical informatics and bioinformaticsC J McDonald
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
J Lab Clin Med 138:359-66. 2001..We will participate in this effort and look forward to bending the EMR we developed for clinical use to bioinformatics uses as well... - Physicians, information technology, and health care systems: a journey, not a destinationClement J McDonald
J Am Med Inform Assoc 11:121-4. 2004 - Which observations from the complete blood cell count predict mortality for hospitalized patients?Abel N Kho
Regenstrief Institute, Inc
J Hosp Med 2:5-12. 2007..Information on the prognostic utility of the admission complete blood count (CBC) and differential count is lacking... - A system for sharing routine surgical pathology specimens across institutions: the Shared Pathology Informatics NetworkThomas A Drake
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, avid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Hum Pathol 38:1212-25. 2007..With the addition of associated clinical and outcome information, this system could vastly expand the pool of annotated tissues available for cancer research as well as other diseases...
Research Grants
- Indiana Program of Excellence in Biomedical ComputingClement McDonald; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..