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Use of RSS Feeds for the Implementation of Clinical Reminder

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A computer-based reminder system can help physicians get right information and make right decisions in daily clinical work in time. This study presents a RSS-based Clinical Reminding System (RCRS) designed for reminding clinicians to deal with their varied unfinished clinical works. The RCRS was implemented in a hospital to automatically generate messages for every clinician on the basis of clinical information gathered from the hospital information system (HIS) and send them by RSS feed. In order to allow all physicians to participate in the project, the RCRS was integrated with the Computerized Physician Order Entry (COPE) system to provide messages whenever a clinician logs in the HIS; the connection on screen lets the clinician easily make some response. The system can help clinicians focus on patient care without keeping track of the schedule of clinical chores stored in various systems. Two physicians, also directors from Clinical Informatics Research & Development Center (CIRD) who were appointed as project leaders of the RCRS project who went through the entire development process were chosen as interviewees to obtain a preliminary evaluation of the system. The results show the “Information Content” of this system was suggested to be modified, and “Information Accuracy”, “Formats”, “Ease of use” and “Timeliness” of the system were appropriate to meet the system design purposes.

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This paper is based upon work supported by National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan under grants no. NSC98-Z410-H-126-010-MY2, NSC96-2221-E-126-006, NSC96-2221-E-126-004-MY3 and NSC95-2218-E-007-025. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSC.

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  1. Department of Information Management, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan

    Wen-Chou Chi & Chih-Yu Lin

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chia-Hsien Wen

  3. Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Sek-Kwong Poon & Shih-Che Huang

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Chi, WC., Wen, CH., Lin, CY. et al. Use of RSS Feeds for the Implementation of Clinical Reminder. J Med Syst 36, 2029–2036 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9665-6

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