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Kinetic-Based Micro Energy-Harvesting for Wearable Sensors

January 28, 2016
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Dora Budic, Dina Simunic
Wearable sensors are considered to be a key component of cognitive infocommunications systems. These sensors, which are basically enabler of inter-cognitive communication, will provide physical interfaces between humans and future information and

Toward Autonomous Mobile Sensor Networks Technology

January 26, 2016
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Amir G. Aghdam
Mobile sensor networking technology has attracted considerable attention in various research communities in recent years due to their widespread applications in civilian and military environments. One objective when using mobile sensors is to obtain

Novel Cyber Physical System for 3D Imaging of the Small Intestine in Vivo

December 11, 2015
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Kaveh Pahlavan, Yishuang Geng, David Cave, GUANQUN BAO, LIANG MI, EMMANUEL AGU, ANDREW KARELLAS, VAHID TAROKH
Small intestine is the longest organ in the gastrointestinal tract where much of the digestion and the food absorption take place. Wireless video capsule endoscope (VCE) is the first device taking 2-D pictures from the lesions and the abnormalities in the

Electronic Health Record Design Considerations in Responding to Incidences of Highly Infectious Diseases: Clinical Workflows and Exception Handling

December 10, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons
Adoption of Electronic Health Record systems in all care settings has become widespread. EHRs can support and revolutionize the way that public health is protected in the event of an outbreak of a highly infectious disease. In particular, EHRs can support

(NISTIR 7804-1)Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records: Empirically Based Use Cases for Validating Safety-Enhanced Usability and Guidelines for Standardization

October 7, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Sandra S. Prettyman, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Latkany A. Paul, Michael C. Gibbons, Sheryl L. Taylor
This document provides the empirical rationale for critical patient safety related usability guidelines for standardization and requirements for validation testing to ensure safety-enhanced design. These standardization guidelines are targeted at

Technical Basis for User Interface Design of Health IT

August 17, 2015
Author(s)
Michael E. Wiklund, Jonathan Kendler, Limor Hochberg, Matthew B. Weinger
This document is intended to help EHR developers plan and implement a user-centered design for their EHR systems. It includes user interface design principles that are customized for EHR environment. Specifically, it provides: (1) Descriptions of the

Uncoordinated Scheduling Strategies for BAN-to-BAN Interference Mitigation

August 13, 2015
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to the human body. Medical and some other applications impose stringent constraints on battery powered BAN

Improving Clinical Workflow in Ambulatory Care: Implemented Recommendations in an Innovation Prototype for the Veterans Health Administration

August 3, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Emily S. Patterson, Mala Ramaiah, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Robert Calco, Greg Matton, Anne Miller, Ellen Makar, Jorge Ferrer
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented targeted recommendations from human factors workflow methods that could be used in ambulatory (outpatient) care settings to improve the fit of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) with

Overview of the TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track

April 22, 2015
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Clinical Decision Support Track fosters research on systems that link electronic health records with information that is relevant for patient care. TREC 2014 is the initial year of the track. The focus of the first year

(NISTIR 8042) Integrating Electronic Health Records into Clinical Workflow: An Application of Human Factors Modeling Methods to Specialty Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Ophthalmology

February 10, 2015
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons
In this report, a human factors workflow modeling tool, process mapping, was used to visualize and document insights and the end-user needs to improve EHR workflow for clinicians in two specialty outpatient care settings: 1) Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob
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