AIMC Topic: Social Support

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Decision support for Scotland's health and social care: learning from an outcomes-focused approach.

BMJ health & care informatics
This short report shares learning from the research and development phase of the national decision support programme in NHS Scotland. It outlines how the programme has adopted an outcomes-focused approach which has guided critical decisions on soluti...

Identifying vulnerable older adult populations by contextualizing geriatric syndrome information in clinical notes of electronic health records.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Geriatric syndromes such as functional disability and lack of social support are often not encoded in electronic health records (EHRs), thus obscuring the identification of vulnerable older adults in need of additional medical and social s...

Arash: A social robot buddy to support children with cancer in a hospital environment.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
This article presents the thorough design procedure, specifications, and performance of a mobile social robot friend Arash for educational and therapeutic involvement of children with cancer based on their interests and needs. Our research focuses on...

A Novel Model for Predicting Rehospitalization Risk Incorporating Physical Function, Cognitive Status, and Psychosocial Support Using Natural Language Processing.

Medical care
BACKGROUND: With the increasing focus on reducing hospital readmissions in the United States, numerous readmissions risk prediction models have been proposed, mostly developed through analyses of structured data fields in electronic medical records a...

Project aims to create social care robots.

Nursing older people
Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are collaborating on a programme to develop a human-shaped robot to assist in social care for older people.

An Integrated Children Disease Prediction Tool within a Special Social Network.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This paper proposes a social network with an integrated children disease prediction system developed by the use of the specially designed Children General Disease Ontology (CGDO). This ontology consists of children diseases and their relationship wit...

Clinical Natural Language Processing in 2014: Foundational Methods Supporting Efficient Healthcare.

Yearbook of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: To summarize recent research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2014 in the field of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP).