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Unlocking healthcare data potential: a comprehensive integration approach with ...
Sousa, Regina; Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa; Peixoto, Hugo; Machado, José ManuelThis paper investigates the transformative potential of integrating technical and methodological tools such as GraphQL, openEHR, Redis, and Pervasive Business Intelligence in healthcare. Modern healthcare systems face data silos, interoperability, and efficient data communication challenges. The integration of these technologies offers innovative solutions to address these challenges. GraphQL, known for its fle...
Bringing empirical big data to evidence based qualitative knowledge in Healthcare
Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro CostaO avanço da Tecnologia trouxe ainda mais problemas ao sector da Saúde que, devido ao nosso contexto social e económico, já se encontrava em dificuldades – interrupção ou atraso na utilização de serviços tecnológicos; sistemas computacionais e de informação incapazes de comportar novas políticas tecnológicas de organização, processamento e partilha de dados médicos. No entanto, espera-se que os cuidados de saúde...
A comparative study of optical character recognition in health information system
Ribeiro, Mario R.M.; Julio, Duarte; Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelMHealth Institutes are transitioning between documents in physical format and digital format. It is pertinent and important to develop applications that helps health professionals on this transition. An application that would aid the process of digitalization of documents was developed using a Python library. To help with the decision of which library to use, a study was made regarding the precision and speed o...
Knowledge discovery from surgical waiting lists
Neto, Cristiana; Peixoto, Hugo Daniel Abreu; Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelMethods for knowledge discovery in data bases (KDD) have been studied for more than a decade. New methods are required owing to the size and complexity of data collections in administration, business and science. They include procedures for data query and extraction, for data cleaning, data analysis, and methods of knowledge representation. The part of KDD dealing with the analysis of the data has been termed d...
Length of hospital stay and quality of care
Neves, José; Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa; Vicente, Henrique; Neves, João; Machado, José ManuelThe relationship between Length Of hospital Stay (LOS) and Quality-of- Care (QofC) is demanding and difficult to assess. Indeed, a multifaceted intertwining network of countless services and LOS factors is available, which may range from organizational culture to hospital physicians availability, without discarding the possibility of lifting the foot on intermediate care services, to the customs and cultures of...
An assessment on the length of hospital stay through Artificial Neural Networks
Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa; Vicente, Henrique; Machado, José Manuel; Neves, JoséThe attitude of stashing costs and preventing people of any kind of intervention on the valuation of the problem referred to above, may undermine their belief on present society values and on their way of living. Cutting funds from Education to Health is at best delaying the inevitable crash that is foresha- dowed. Indeed, regarding people, a major concern may be described as jeopar- dizing their health conditi...