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Healthcare Quality Metrics: An Annotated Bibliography
Healthcare Quality Metrics 1. Health Resource and Service Administration http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/toolbox/RuralHealthITtoolbox/PatientQuality/metrics.html Description: A quality metric allows a user to quantify the quality of a selected aspect of care. The Health Resource and Service Administration website explains the different types of quality metrics … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Healthcare Quality
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ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources 1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/index.html?redirect=/icd10 Description: ICD-9 code sets used in reporting medical diagnoses and impatient procedures are being replaced by ICD-10 code sets on October 1, 2014. This transition is required … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Media Sharing, Resource-a-rama
Tagged ICD-10
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SQL Programming Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
SQL Programming Resources 1. Coursera/Stanford “Introduction to Databases” https://www.coursera.org/course/db One of the biggest names in Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOC), Coursera has a huge database of university level courses. This offering from Stanford University has 9 units devoted to SQL … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged SQL, SQL Server
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‘Big Data’ Public Databases: An Annotated Bibliography
Big Public Databases 1. Kin Lane’s Federal Dataset Tool http://federal-agency-dataset-adoption.publicprivatesector.org/index.html Many of the following listings refer to US Federal Government datasets. These are some of the biggest public datasets available. Unfortunately, much of this data is messy, published without much … Continue reading
Posted in Data Science, Digital Libraries, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Open data, social scientists
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Working in Data: ORDER CAREERS, DESC
I’ve had the opportunity to work in health data for a while now. There are most definitely gradations and ranks in the data verse career list. In my first role as a health technologist, I learned a massive wealth of … Continue reading
Free Online Public Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography
Free Online Health Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography By William Murakami-Brundage 1st edition, February 2012 There exists a shortage of usable data sets and public health data. Whether your interest is biomedical engineering, health informatics, data mining, or public health … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama, The Cloud
Tagged Annotated bibliography, CaBIG, California, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS Data Compendium, data mining, Medicaid, Medicare, National Cancer Institute, Open data, United States
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Digital Libraries, Content, and Structure
Digital libraries are a major element in the formation of the Internet. For those of you whom don’t remember, originally the Internet just had these index pages full of links, with little rhyme or reason to them – this was … Continue reading →