A new development in the practice of medicine is Artificial Intelligence-based predictive analytics that forewarn clinicians of future deterioration of their patients. This proactive opportunity, though, is different from the reactive stance that cli...
Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
Jun 24, 2021
OBJECTIVES: The aims of the study were to evaluate the external contamination of hazardous drug vials used in Chinese hospitals and to compare environmental contamination generated by a robotic intelligent dispensing system (WEINAS) and a manual comp...
Researchers have found that machine learning methods are typically better at prediction than econometric models when the choice environment is stable. We study hospital demand models, and evaluate the relative performance of machine learning algorith...
Chronic diseases are gradually becoming the main threat to human health. By designing an efficient hospital management platform to quickly identify the corresponding chronic diseases, it can effectively reduce the labor cost, improve the accuracy of ...
Antimicrobial resistance and infection control
May 29, 2021
BACKGROUND: Environmental surface decontamination is a crucial tool to prevent the spread of infections in hospitals. However, manual cleaning and disinfection may be insufficient to eliminate pathogens from contaminated surfaces. Ultraviolet-C (UV-C...
Early identification of resource needs is instrumental in promoting efficient hospital resource management. Hospital information systems, and electronic health records (EHR) in particular, collect valuable demographic and clinical patient data from t...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Deep learning architectures have an extremely high-capacity for modeling complex data in a wide variety of domains. However, these architectures have been limited in their ability to support complex prediction problems using insurance claims data, su...
It is well known that information technology (IT) can play a pivotal role in enhancing healthcare quality and patient safety. The use of computational science to enhance the capabilities of hospital information systems helps deliver enhanced healthca...
There is limited literature examining the accuracy of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) in characterisation of β-lactamase resistance patterns. We present a prospective single centre study to better ascertain the performance characteristics of...