Primera Conferencia Internacional sobre Informática de la Salud, 2013: comportamiento desde la metría de la información / First International Conference on Health Informatics ICHI 2013: an information metrics perspective

Caracterizar la PrimeraConferencia sobre Informática de la Salud, ICHI' 2013. Métodos: se analizaron las ponencias presentadas en el evento a partir de la utilización de técnicas relevantes para la evaluación de la ciencia e inherentes a la metría de la información. Se utilizó el método de cuenta completa para la realización de los conteos de productividad de autoría a nivel individual, institucional, por países y por continentes, mientras que para la representación de la colaboración científica y la coocurrencia de palabras clave se utilizaron técnicas de visualización basadas en técnicas de análisis de redes sociales. Resultados: se identificó principalmente a China y Portugal como protagonistas del certamen, aunque se destacan otros. Se evidenció un predominio de la colaboración científica, principalmente a nivel nacional, como forma organizativa preferida para la generación de conocimiento. Conclusiones: se confirma el perfil temático del evento a partir de la coocurrencia de palabras clave y se evidencia la integración de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación con la Biomedicina para la Salud Global...

Characterize the First International Conference on Health Informatics ICHI 2013. Methods: an analysis was conducted of the papers presented at the Conference, using relevant scientific evaluation and information metrics techniques. The total count method was used to gauge author productivity on an individual and institutional level, as well as by country and continent. Scientific cooperation and key word co-occurrence were analyzed with visualization techniques based on social network analysis. Results: China and Portugal were identified as the leading participants in the Conference, while other countries also had an active participation. Evidence was found of a predominance of scientific cooperation, mainly on a national scale, as the favorite organizational mode to generate knowledge. Conclusions: the topic profile of the Conference was confirmed by the co-occurrence of key words. Evidence was found of the incorporation of information and communication technologies into biomedicine for global health...

Patient Identification and Hospital Information Management Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Prospective Study in Rwanda and Burundi

For many sub-Saharan health facilities; accurate patient identification remains a challenge. Poor national person identification systems; inefficient identification procedures; the use of weak search criteria and sometimes fraudulent practice consist some of the underlying causes. In this study; patient identification effectiveness has been compared between 27 sub-Saharan hospitals using paper based procedures and 6 health facilities in the same region that had implemented a hospital information management system. Based on a simple metric; results show a significant (p0.001) improvement reducing identification errors from 64.6 before to 2.3 after information system implementation in a sample of 1 private and 5 public hospitals in Rwanda and Burundi