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Study of the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Electronic Medical Record Systems in General Hospital in China
Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have been proposed as technology to improve the quality of patient care, decrease medical errors, control and reduce medical expenditure, however the financial effects h...
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A multi-modal dialogue analysis method for medical interviews based on design of interaction corpus
We propose a multi-modal dialogue analysis method for medical interviews that hierarchically interprets nonverbal interaction patterns in a bottom-up manner and simultaneously visualizes the topic structure. O...
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Impact of the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination-based Payment System in Japan
In the health insurance system of Japan, a fee-for-service system has been applied to individual treatment services since 1958. This system involves a structural problem of causing an increase in examination a...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Brugada Syndrome Treatment
Brugada syndrome is characterized by an ST-segment elevation in the right precordial ECG leads and a high incidence of sudden death in patients with structurally normal hearts. Some trials have demonstrated th...
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Efficacy of Interferon Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Predicted by Feature Subset Selection and Support Vector Machine
Chronic hepatitis C is a disease that is difficult to treat. At present, interferon might be the only drug, which can cure this kind of disease, but its efficacy is limited and patients face the risk of side e...
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Support Vector Machine-Based Feature Selection for Classification of Liver Fibrosis Grade in Chronic Hepatitis C
Although liver biopsy is currently regarded as the gold standard for staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C, it is a costly invasive procedure and carries a small risk for complication. Our aim in this ...
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Development of distributed image database combined with clinical information in hospital information system
We have developed a distributed image database system composed of the data in our medium-scale PACS that provides diagnostic-quality images and the data in our HIS. INFORMIX software was used to construct the ...