A Unified Modeling Approach to Data-Intensive Healthcare
Iain Edward Buchan, John Michael Winn, Chris Bishop · Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 2009
The use of standard terms and ontologies in eHR is increasing the structure of healthcare data, but clinical coding behaviour introduces new potential biases. For example, the introduction of incentives for primary care professionals to tackle particular conditions may lead to fluctuations in the amounts of coding of new cases of those conditions [de Lusignan et al. 2006]. On the other hand, the falling cost of devices for remote monitoring and near-patient testing is leading to more capture of objective measures in eHR, which can provide less-biased signals but which may create the illusion of an increase in disease prevalence.