An analysis of clinical queries in an electronic health record search utility

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 515-522

  Natarajan, Karthik ^a   Stein, Daniel ^a   Jain, Samat ^a   Elhadad, Noémie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized; Information storage and retrieval; Medical informatics; Medical informatics applications; Medical record systems

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF; CONCEPT BASED SEARCH; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FREE-TEXT SEARCH; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HIGH LEVEL SEMANTICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LOG FILE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS; OVERLAPPING DATA; POST-IMPLEMENTATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY; SEARCH LOGS; SEARCH QUERIES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; USER NEED; USER TYPE;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE; DATA MINING; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

DATA MINING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEW YORK; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 77952892152     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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