- Editors:
- Kerryn Butler-Henderson,
- Kathleen Gray
Research and development in Health Informatics and Knowledge Management has increasingly wider relevance to real-world settings because of the rise of e-health and the renewed pace of information technology-enabled healthcare system reforms of many kinds, not only in the Australasian region but around the world.
HIKM seeks to showcase scholarly and scientific investigation of this wave of change and innovation in healthcare, and to provide an annual forum for selective, in-depth reporting of new research and development in the field. HIKMs call for papers this year attracted 22 manuscripts that explored a fascinating array of current challenges and opportunities for Health Informatics and Knowledge Management, by researchers based in Australia and New Zealand and beyond.
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The role of emotional intelligence on the resolution of disputes involving the electronic health record
Numerous authors have expressed concerns that the introduction of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) will lead to an escalation of disputes. Some disputes will concern the accuracy of the record whereas others will arise simply ...
Detection of evidence in clinical research papers
When appraising published clinical research, medical doctors and researchers often need to know whether the clinical outcomes presented had statistical evidence. In this paper we present a study for the detection of expressions of such statistical ...
Evaluation of web 2.0 technologies for developing online telehealth systems
Telehealth and telecare applications are a promising technology for improving the quality of care while using healthcare resources more effectively. Major obstacles to a more widespread use are the high initial costs and a vendor specific design, which ...
Achieving acceptable structured eReferral forms
This paper reports on the implementation of electronic referrals (eReferrals) from community to public secondary services in New Zealand, with a focus on contrast and comparison of the knowledge engineering processes of two distinct regional projects ...
A Bayesian analysis on historical clinical data concerning treatment change for HIV/AIDS patients
The advances of biomedical informatics have allowed considerable amounts of historical data to be recorded about an HIV/AIDS patient. By a Bayesian approach coupled with a statistical hierarchical analysis, we evaluate the significance of historical ...
Inducing and storing generalised evidences using semantic web formalisms
Over the course of the last decade, decision support systems have been used to assist clinicians and researchers in expanding the body of knowledge of particular (bio)-medical areas, as well as in diverse decision-making processes (e.g., diagnosis, ...
Gaining insight from patient journey data using a process-oriented analysis approach
Hospitals are continually struggling to cater for the increasing demand for inpatient services. This is due to increased population, aging, and the rising incidence of chronic diseases associated with modern life. The high demand for hospital services ...
Effects of physician collaboration network on hospital outcomes
Previous studies have documented the effect of collaboration among physicians on the effectiveness in delivering health services and in producing better patient outcomes. However, there is no systematic empirical study suggesting the underlying ...
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Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management - Volume 129