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Facilitating transitions to EMR adoption through client-side electronic documentation.
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A Clinical Database-Driven Approach to Decision Support: Predicting Mortality Among Patients with Acute Kidney Injury.
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A cluster-randomized trial of a primary care informatics-based system for breast cancer screening.
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Lessons from implementing a combined workflow-informatics system for diabetes management.
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linked information resource: Practical Aspects of Implementing and Applying Health Care Cloud Computing Services and Informatics to Cancer Clinical Trial Data.

Practical Aspects of Implementing and Applying Health Care Cloud Computing Services and Informatics to Cancer Clinical Trial Data.
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linked information resource: Precision Medicine Landscape of Genomic Testing for Patients With Cancer in the National Institutes of Health All of Us Database Using Informatics Approaches.

Precision Medicine Landscape of Genomic Testing for Patients With Cancer in the National Institutes of Health All of Us Database Using Informatics Approaches.
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Dedicated AI Expert System vs Generative AI With Large Language Model for Clinical Diagnoses.
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Sex-specific patterns and differences in dementia and Alzheimer's disease using informatics approaches.
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Assessing the readiness of precision medicine interoperabilty: An exploratory study of the National Institutes of Health genetic testing registry.
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Using informatics to guide public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA.
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Pharmacogenomic testing and prescribing patterns for patients with cancer in a large national precision medicine cohort.
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Facilitated lipid management using interactive e-mail: preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial.
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The force-frequency relationship is altered in regenerating and senescent rat skeletal muscle.
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New models of population management for patients with diabetes--using informatics tools to support primary care.
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Designing healthcare information technology to catalyse change in clinical care.
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Efficacy of a clinical decision-support system in an HIV practice: a randomized trial.
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How doctors choose medications to treat type 2 diabetes: a national survey of specialists and academic generalists.
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Mammography FastTrack: an intervention to facilitate reminders for breast cancer screening across a heterogeneous multi-clinic primary care network.
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A neural network approach to electromyographic signal processing for a motor control task
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Utilization of increased risk for transmission of infectious disease donor organs in solid organ transplantation: Retrospective analysis of disease transmission and safety.
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Facilitating group learning and dialogue between neighboring academic institutions using a collaborative web application framework.
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Population-based breast cancer screening in a primary care network.
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Randomized controlled trial of an informatics-based intervention to increase statin prescription for secondary prevention of coronary disease.
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Comparison of cement stresses in all-polyethylene and metal-backed total knee replacements
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Cement stresses under all-polyethylene tibial total knee replacements
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Quicksilver: a novel publish and subscribe clinical messaging platform.
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Diabetes information technology: designing informatics systems to catalyze change in clinical care.
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Closing the knowledge-performance gap of hperlipidemia management: preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial
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Genetic testing behavior and reporting patterns in electronic medical records for physicians trained in a primary care specialty or subspecialty.
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