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Healthcare Information Technology Standards: General Suitability Analysis

May 31, 2011
Author(s)
Liora Alschuler
The methodology described in this document was produced and developed by Lantana Consulting Group for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It is part of a series of suitability analsyses on four healthcare standards performed under

Templated CDA:Key Concept for Interoperability

May 31, 2011
Author(s)
Liora Alschuler
This document supplements information about “templated CDA” in the context of the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Standards Analysis Project carried out by Lantana Consulting Group for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Usability and Accessibility in Consumer Health Informatics: Current Trends and Future Challenges

May 16, 2011
Author(s)
Larry Goldberg, Bettijoyce B. Lide, Svetlana Z. Lowry, Holly Massett, Whitney Quesenbery, Ben Schneiderman
People arrive at health applications with expectations from the rest of their lives and those expectations are rapidly rising. Beyond basic access to their own health records and to their healthcare providers, consumers expect their health information to

Encryption Basics

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Kevin M. Stine, Quynh H. Dang
Healthcare and health information technology professionals are entrusted with patient data which, because of its personal nature, requires protection to ensure its confidentiality. To provide this protection, these professionals frequently look to commonly

The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): A Completed Reference Database of Lung Nodules on CT Scans

January 28, 2011
Author(s)
Charles D. Fenimore, Samuel Armato, Denise Aberle, Matthew Brown, Claudia Henschke, Michael McNitt-Gray, Heber MacMahon, Geoffrey McLennan, Charles R. Meyer, Anthony P. Reeves, David F. Yankelevitz
The development of computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) methods for lung nodule detection, classification, and quantitative assessment can be facilitated through a well-characterized repository of computed tomography scans. The Lung Image Database Consortium

Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)

September 30, 2010
Author(s)
Matthew A. Scholl, Kevin M. Stine, Kenneth Lin, Daniel Steinberg
The purpose of this publication is to provide a systematic approach to designing a technical security architecture for the exchange of health information that leverages common government and commercial practices and that demonstrates how these practices

Simulation Model for the IEEE 802.15.3/3b WPAN Standard

September 15, 2010
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian
The1IEEE 802.15.3 is an emerging technology for high data rate wireless multimedia applications in Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). In this paper, a discrete event simulation model has been implemented using OPNET2 Modeler to simulate the essential

Statistical Modeling of Harvestable Kinetic Energy for Wearable Medical Sensors

June 15, 2010
Author(s)
Nathalie Yarkony, Kamran Sayrafian, Antonio Possolo
Energy Harvesting (EH) refers to the process of capturing and storing energy from external sources or ambient environment. Kinetic energy harvested from the human body motion seems to be one of the most convenient and attractive solution for wearable

CT Assessment of Response to Therapy: Tumor Volume Change Measurement, Truth Data & Error

December 9, 2009
Author(s)
Charles D. Fenimore, Michael McNitt-Gray, Luc Bidaut, Samuel G. Armato, Charles R. Meyer, Marios A. Gavrielides, Geoffrey McLennan, Nicholas Petrick, Binsheng Zhao, Anthony P. Reeves, Reinhard R. Beichel, Grace Kim
Rationale and Objectives: This manuscript describes issues and methods that are specific to the measurement of change in tumor volume as measured from CT images and how these would relate to the establishment of CT tumor volumetrics as a biomarker of

Quantitative Imaging to Assess Tumor Response to Therapy: Common Themes of Measurement, Truth Data & Error Sources

December 1, 2009
Author(s)
Charles D. Fenimore, Charles R. Meyer, Samuel G. Armato, Geoffrey McLennan, Luc Bidaut, Daniel P. Barboriak, Marios A. Gavrielides, Nicholas Petrick, Edward F. Jackson, Michael McNitt-Gray, Paul E. Kinahan, Binsheng Zhao
Rationale and Objectives Early detection of tumor response to therapy is a key goal. Finding measurement algorithms capable of early detection of tumor response could individualize therapy treatment as well as reduce the cost of bringing new drugs to

A Statistical Path Loss Model for Medical Implant Communication Channels

September 16, 2009
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Wen-Bin Yang, John G. Hagedorn, Judith E. Terrill, Kamya Yazdandoost
Knowledge of the propagation media is a key step toward a successful transceiver design. Such information is typically gathered by conducting physical experiments, measuring and processing the corresponding data to obtain channel characteristics. In case

An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule

October 22, 2008
Author(s)
Matthew A. Scholl, Kevin Stine, Joan Hash, Pauline Bowen, L A. Johnson, Carla Dancy Smith, Daniel Steinberg
Special Publication 800-66 Rev. 1, An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, which discusses security considerations and resources that may provide value when implementing

HL7 Data Type Constraint Hierarchy

July 1, 2004
Author(s)
Leonard J. Gallagher
The goal of this document is to help W3C editors write better specifications, by making a specification easier to interpret without ambiguity and clearer as to what is required in order to conform. It focuses on how to define and specify conformance. It

Healthcare Information Standards & Testing: A Concept Paper

September 1, 2002
Author(s)
Lisa J. Carnahan, Lynne S. Rosenthal
This paper was inspired by preliminary discussions between NIST and members of the healthcare community who are impacted by the use of emerging information technology. Topics of discussion included the current state of standards work in the healthcare
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