Clinical advice and retrieval management between the PICU and referring hospitals is provided by telephone.
Medical informatics refers to the acquisition, storage, retrieval, management, and optimal use of medical information, data, and knowledge (Weiner et al 2003).
Using a pragmatic randomised design, with telemedicine consultation as the intervention and telephone consultation as the control, this study will provide new information on the effectiveness and economics of using telemedicine for paediatric acute care retrieval management in a regionalised public health care system.
Semantic-level content analysis is a crucial issue in achieving efficient content retrieval and management.
For over forty years, relational databases have been the leading model for data storage, retrieval and management.
The company's risk assessment services business provides underwriting support services to the life insurance industry, which include specimen collection and paramedical examinations, laboratory testing, medical record retrieval, case management, motor vehicle reports, telephone inspections, prescription histories and credit checks.
This is the point where Fruchter (2004) suggested the digital integration of the whole data creation, retrieval, and management system within building industry in order to prevent tacit knowledge loss and miscommunication among various parties from different disciplines.
In application domains, such as distributed information retrieval, content management and distribution, e-Commerce, the agent-based computing paradigm has been demonstrated to be effective for the analysis, design and implementation of distributed software systems.
The results show that the proposed approach is adequate to support knowledge sharing and reuse, allowing: (a) knowledge representation and organization; (b) distributed knowledge inference and retrieval; (c) management of organizational knowledge on manufacturing environments with distributed resources.
We also thank E. Doxsey-Whitfield, B. Meneken, K. Nydick and R. Vinebrooke for field assistance, M. Anderson for aid in retrieval and management of climate data, J. Smol for insightful comments on early versions of the manuscript, as well as the journal reviewers and the Academic Editor for suggestions that have led to substantial improvements.
Information retrieval and management.
