SynthesisJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2015
Innovative information visualization of electronic health record data: a systematic review.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Supporting clinical reasoning through visual summarization and presentation of patient data: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Pooled it
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- The role of information systems in emergency department decision-making-a literature review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Electronic Medical Record Driven Quality Measurement and Feedback Systems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of clinical dashboards as audit and feedback or clinical decision support tools on medication use and test ordering: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Pooled it
- Toward a Learning Health Care System: A Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Conceptual Framework for Implementation of Clinical Analytics in a Digital Hospital.Applied clinical informatics · 2022Pooled it
- Technological progress in electronic health record system optimization: Systematic review of systematic literature reviews.International journal of medical informatics · 2021Pooled it
- Evaluating visual analytics for health informatics applications: a systematic review from the American Medical Informatics Association Visual Analytics Working Group Task Force on Evaluation.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019Pooled it
- Nurses' preferences for the format of care planning clinical decision support coded with standardized nursing languages.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Trial
- Perceptions of Using Multiple Mobile Health Devices to Support Self-Management Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2021Trial
- Implementing 360° Quantified Self for childhood obesity: feasibility study and experiences from a weight loss camp in Qatar.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2017Trial
- ViMDT: a clinical data visual analysis tool for multi-disciplinary treatment of lung cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Article
- An evaluation of the clinician-facing research dashboards from the Toronto Adolescent and Youth (TAY) Cohort Study in mental health care.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- VIEWER: an extensible visual analytics framework for enhancing mental healthcare.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026Article
- Meeting the challenges of electronic health record (EHR) optimization.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Review
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- LabVis: usability testing of a prototype tool for integrating timeline graphs and clinical notes.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Visualization of Medical Record with 3D Human Body Models.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of International Classification of Disease-Triggered Prescription Support on Telemedicine: Observational Analysis of Efficiency and Guideline Adherence.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Observational
- VisualSphere: a Web-based Interactive Visualization System for Clinical Research Data.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2024Article
13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
objectiveThis study investigates the use of visualization techniques reported between 1996 and 2013 and evaluates innovative approaches to information visualization of electronic health record (EHR) data for knowledge discovery.
methodsAn electronic literature search was conducted May-July 2013 using MEDLINE and Web of Knowledge, supplemented by citation searching, gray literature searching, and reference list reviews. General search terms were used to assure a comprehensive document search.
resultsBeginning with 891 articles, the number of articles was reduced by eliminating 191 duplicates. A matrix was developed for categorizing all abstracts and to assist with determining those to be excluded for review. Eighteen articles were included in the final analysis. DISCUSSION: Several visualization techniques have been extensively researched. The most mature system is LifeLines and its applications as LifeLines2, EventFlow, and LifeFlow. Initially, research focused on records from a single patient and visualization of the complex data related to one patient. Since 2010, the techniques under investigation are for use with large numbers of patient records and events. Most are linear and allow interaction through scaling and zooming to resize. Color, density, and filter techniques are commonly used for visualization.
conclusionsWith the burgeoning increase in the amount of electronic healthcare data, the potential for knowledge discovery is significant if data are managed in innovative and effective ways. We identify challenges discovered by previous EHR visualization research, which will help researchers who seek to design and improve visualization techniques.
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