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'''"[[Journal:Analyzing huge pathology images with open source software|Analyzing huge pathology images with open source software]]"'''
'''"[[Journal:Beyond information retrieval and electronic health record use: Competencies in clinical informatics for medical education|Beyond information retrieval and electronic health record use: Competencies in clinical informatics for medical education]]"'''


Background: Digital pathology images are increasingly used both for diagnosis and research, because slide scanners are nowadays broadly available and because the quantitative study of these images yields new insights in systems biology. However, such virtual slides build up a technical challenge since the images occupy often several gigabytes and cannot be fully opened in a computer’s memory. Moreover, there is no standard format. Therefore, most common open source tools such as ImageJ fail at treating them, and the others require expensive hardware while still being prohibitively slow.
Physicians in the 21st century will increasingly interact in diverse ways with information systems, requiring competence in many aspects of [[clinical informatics]]. In recent years, many medical school curricula have added content in [[information]] retrieval (search) and basic use of the [[electronic health record]]. However, this omits the growing number of other ways that physicians are interacting with information that includes activities such as [[Clinical decision support system|clinical decision support]], quality measurement and improvement, personal health records, telemedicine, and personalized medicine. We describe a process whereby six faculty members representing different perspectives came together to define competencies in clinical informatics for a curriculum transformation process occurring at Oregon Health & Science University. From the broad competencies, we also developed specific learning objectives and milestones, an implementation schedule, and mapping to general competency domains. We present our work to encourage debate and refinement as well as facilitate evaluation in this area. ('''[[Journal:Beyond information retrieval and electronic health record use: Competencies in clinical informatics for medical education|Full article...]]''')<br />
 
Results: We have developed several cross-platform open source software tools to overcome these limitations. The NDPITools provide a way to transform microscopy images initially in the loosely supported NDPI format into one or several standard TIFF files, and to create mosaics (division of huge images into small ones, with or without overlap) in various TIFF and JPEG formats. They can be driven through ImageJ plugins. The LargeTIFFTools achieve similar functionality for huge TIFF images which do not fit into RAM. We test the performance of these tools on several digital slides and compare them, when applicable, to standard software. A statistical study of the cells in a tissue sample from an oligodendroglioma was performed on an average laptop computer to demonstrate the efficiency of the tools. ('''[[Journal:Analyzing huge pathology images with open source software|Full article...]]''')<br />


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Tab2 Hersh AdvancesMedEdPrac2014 2014-5.jpg

"Beyond information retrieval and electronic health record use: Competencies in clinical informatics for medical education"

Physicians in the 21st century will increasingly interact in diverse ways with information systems, requiring competence in many aspects of clinical informatics. In recent years, many medical school curricula have added content in information retrieval (search) and basic use of the electronic health record. However, this omits the growing number of other ways that physicians are interacting with information that includes activities such as clinical decision support, quality measurement and improvement, personal health records, telemedicine, and personalized medicine. We describe a process whereby six faculty members representing different perspectives came together to define competencies in clinical informatics for a curriculum transformation process occurring at Oregon Health & Science University. From the broad competencies, we also developed specific learning objectives and milestones, an implementation schedule, and mapping to general competency domains. We present our work to encourage debate and refinement as well as facilitate evaluation in this area. (Full article...)


Recently featured: Analyzing huge pathology images with open source software, iLAP: A workflow-driven software for experimental protocol development, data acquisition and analysisThe evolution, use, and effects of integrated personal health records: A narrative review

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