Biomedical subjects

P Given

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PubMed1996

Patient result validation services.

Patient result validation is a vital final stage of laboratory quality assurance and is usually the responsibility of senior laboratory staff. Computerised validation systems have recently been introduced to autovalidate data meeting certain pre-defined criteria, thereby allowing senior staff to focus on problematic cases. This article describes the patient results validation service module developed for an advanced instrument workstation in the OpenLabs project. Using knowledge-based techniques, the module provides a range of locally configurable advanced validation procedures (e.g., internal consistency checks, delta checks, and checks for selected specific errors) in addition to the standard reference range and pathological limits checks offered by many laboratory information systems.

Artificial Intelligence↗

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Technological necessity of antioxidants in the food industry.

Antioxidants are one of the principal lines of defence in protecting quality as food or ingredients move from the farm through processing and distribution to the consumer. The urbanization of society and the resultant need to process complex, higher-quality foods have required that products survive a longer transportation time and an extended shelf-life. Consumers are also becoming more quality oriented and health conscious in their food selections. The food manufacturer, therefore, is faced with the challenge of supplying wholesome high-quality foods to the consumer. One of the major sources of change that occurs during processing, distribution and final preparation of foods is oxidation. Among the major food quality issues influenced by lipid oxidation are nutritional quality, toxicity, flavour, texture and colour. Antioxidants significantly extend the shelf-life of foods containing oxidizable lipids such as vegetable oils, animal fats, flavourings, spices, nuts, processed meats and snack products. It is important to note that oxidation and the need for antioxidants is not limited to high-fat foods, but includes cereals and other items that contain only small amounts of lipids.

Antioxidants↗

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Federated healthcare record server--the Synapses paradigm.

The delivery of healthcare relies on the sharing of patient information between those who are providing for the care of the patient and this information is increasingly being expressed in terms of a 'record'. Further, it is desirable that these records are available in electronic form as Electronic HealthCare Records. As it is likely that patient records or parts of records will be stored in many different information systems and in the form of disparate record architectures, uniform access to patient records would be problematic. This paper presents an overview of the Synapses computing environment in which a Federated Healthcare Record Server provides uniform access to patient information stored in connected heterogeneous autonomous information systems and other Synapses servers. The Synapses record architecture is based on the architecture proposed by the Technical Committee 251 of the European Committee for Standardisation and the interfaces to the Synapses server are specified in the ISO standard Interface Definition Language. Synapses is a pan-European project involving a number of hospitals, software companies, universities and research institutes and is partly funded by the EU Health Telematics Programme. The overview is described in terms of the Open Distributed Processing Reference Model.

Computer Communication Networks↗