Medical Informatics
Documents from My Thirty Year Career
- Articles
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Self-Organizing Hypertext Notebooks (Jrju)
Medicine Medinfo Projects 1997
Jrju
(Chinese for spider) is a Perl program that weaves hypertext 'notebooks' from plain text files. An author creates notebook pages using the JTX markup format. Jrju will process a directory of JTX files into a cross-linked collection of HTML pages. Jrju rebuilds the entire notebook each time so there are no broken links or orphan pages. -
QuickHPI (History of Present Illness)
Medicine Medinfo 2025
QuickHPI is a tool for recording the History of Present Illness in a concise, easy to read format. Simply fill out the form, click a button and your note is ready. Make changes and update it as many times as necessary. When you are satisfied with your work, paste the text into your favorite EMR, database, or word processor. Enjoy! RR
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The Rational History of Present Illness
Medicine Medinfo 2017
The History of Present Illness (HPI) has not changed appreciably since the introduction of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record in 1968. Until recently most medical documentation was created via dictation or handwritten notes. Narrative was the natural format for the HPI. This is no longer true in the era of online forms and computer-generated text.
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ShortNote Clinical Shorthand
Medicine Medinfo 2016
I have worked with home-grown and commercial Electronic Medical Records for over thirty years. The use of
dot commands
(a period followed by a trigger phrase) is about as old as personal computing. (I first encountered dot commands in the WordStar word processing program during the 1980s!) These commands generally fall into three categories: -
Electronic [Medical, Patient, Health] Records (2006)
Medicine Medinfo 2006
…the biggest complaint — with potentially dangerous implications — involved the automatic alerts that flashed on the screen every time a doctor made an out-of-the-ordinary request. Designed to catch errors before they occur, the alerts became an unending series of questions, reminders and requests on fairly basic decisions.
- Files
- Future-of-Clinical-Information-Systems-1994.pdf
- Medical-Informatics-Progress-Report-1990-1995.pdf
- Rathe-Blog-Covid-March-2021.pdf
- electronic_medical_records/amia-2006-rathe-ehr-tutorial.pdf
- quickhpi/quickhpi.html
- self_organizing_hypertext_notebooks/format.jtx.text
- sensitivity-and-specificity-vs-recall-and-precision.text