Hi Oliver, the honeymoon was great, we couldn't believe how everything fell into place and we had such a great time.
The term "analytics" is used by us to mean all forms of analysis of data and a particular form of it is OLAP -Online Analytical Processing. This is a software system that sits on top of your database and allows you to extract cross-tabulations of data without needing to know a database retreival langauge like SQL. Plus it will have lots of graphing functions and other forms of visualisations. One way of thinking of it could be to say it makes your database behave more like it was spreadsheet. We recently built a small OLAP system for the archival part of the RPAH's CareVue system as used in the ICU to assist them in readily doing data analysis. We are going back this semester to build a more elaborate system for their real-time system. SNOMED News - the release of SNOMED means that we should be able to provide SNOMED codes on our prototype server in the very near future. I have not been saying much about it lately as we have been trying to deal with the licensing issues, but that may now go away. Also we have prepared another version of our text to SCT mapper that has abbreviations and does negation(not perfectly). We have a plan of work involving improving its multi-word expression recognition, non-medical entities (time, dates, quantitites, etc) and negation. We are meeting with NEhTA in 2 weeks to disucss our work and see if we can develop a collaboration with them. We have recieved a number of requests to develop a system for processing pathology reports -we are developing a program of projects to support this need, ut they are dependent on funding. Just yesterday we recieved a request for a general Google-like system to allow information retreival of a hospital's document repository using SCT codes. There seems to be plenty of intererst in what we are doing -however a long path to getting funded projects up and running. We are still desparately in need of data. cheers jon Quoting Oliver Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jon Patrick wrote: > > > Who believes that motivation to use computers would be improved if the > > analytics available were more comprehensive? > > Jon, > > How was the honeymoon? > > I would like to answer your question, but I don't understand it. What > are 'analytics'? > > -- > Oliver Frank, general practitioner > 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 > Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
