PopHR: a knowledge-based platform to support integration, analysis, and visualization of population health data

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1387, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 44-53

  Shaban Nejad, Arash ^a,b   Lavigne, Maxime ^a   Okhmatovskaia, Anya ^a   Buckeridge, David L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

health data analytics; health informatics; population health record; population health surveillance; semantic data modeling

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEMANTICS; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84991677366     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13271     Document Type: Article

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