PURPOSE: Outpatient infusions are commonly missing in Veterans Health Affairs (VHA) pharmacy dispensing data sets. Currently, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes are used to identify outpatient infusions, but concerns exist if the...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 11, 2014
The patient population benefitting from cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is increasing. This study introduces a device annotation method that supports the consistent description of the functional attributes of cardiac devices and evalua...
Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
May 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: To develop a prediction model for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in twin pregnancy using characteristics obtained at the first prenatal visit.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Explanations help to understand why anomaly detection algorithms identify data as anomalous. This study evaluates whether robustly standardized explanation scores correctly identify the implausible variables that make cancer data anomalou...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Large registries are promising tools to study the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We aimed to develop and validate machine learning models to identify IBD cases in administrative data, aiming to determine the pr...
The assistance to veterans in the UK is provided by the National Health Service and over 1800 military charities. These charities count services using different definitions and reporting systems, so to date a national registry of service usage does n...
Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of a coronary CT angiography (CCTA) artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tool (AI-QCPA; HeartFlow) to quantify plaque volume, as compared with intravascular US (IVUS). Materials and Methods A retrospective...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Significant developments are currently underway in the field of cancer research, particularly in Germany, regarding cancer registration and the use of medical information systems. The use of such systems contributes significantly to quality assurance...