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Is tweeting socialism?
Not Elsewhere Classified
100
It is the harmonic mean of recall and precision.
What is the F-measure?
100
These two networks tie together i2b2 sites to allow federated summary queries of patient data.
What are SHRINE and TriNeTX?
100
This is the term used by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to determine whether an electronic health record installation qualifies for subsidies.
What is "meaningful use"?
100
Often tethered to hospital electronic record systems, these applications provide patients with access to their own medical data.
What are personal health records.
100
One of the terminology desiderata recommends avoiding this type of controlled term.
What is "not elsewhere classified"?
200
Adoption of this standard for clinical decision support is impeded by the "curly braces problem".
What is the Arden Syntax?
200
Although these resources provide large volumes of patient data, they maybe less than ideal for reuse in research because of incompleteness and other problems.
What are electronic health records (EHRs)?
200
Although it is not a terminology, this component of the NLM's Unified Medical Language System is a combination of over 130 terminologies.
What is the Metathesaurus?
200
Originally famous for detecting influenza outbreaks, this social media site has been terminated after some spectacular failures.
What is Google Flu Trends?
200
He is often considered the father of biomedical informatics.
Who was Homer Warner?
300
The UAB 1917 Clinic allows patients to enter these kinds for data about their own conditions.
What are Patient-Reported Outcomes?
300
This hospital information system developed at the Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City was one of the first to implement rule-based decision support in patient care.
What is HELP?
300
These are the ONC-approved terminologies for laboratory results, medications and patient problems.
What are LOINC, RxNorm and SNOMED-CT?
300
This standard is intended to support an "app-based" approach to developing modules for electronic health records.
What is Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technology (SMART)?
300
This bioethics principle deals with minimizing risk to patients while maximizing patients' best interests.
What is beneficence (non-malfeasance)?
400
In applying Bayes' Theorem to medical diagnosis, the post-test probability of a disease is calculated based on the ratio between the likelihood of the test being positive if the disease is present and the sum of all possible reasons for the test to be positive, times this additional factor.
What is the pre-test probability (or prevalence) of the disease?
400
This translational informatics metric is used to correct for sequencing transfer RNA of varying lengths.
What is "Reads per Kilobase per Million" (RPKM)?
400
According to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, these two elements are allowed in limited data sets but not in de-identified data sets.
What are dates and zip codes?
400
This system at Children's Hospital in Boston aggregates information from social media to show outbreaks for disease around the world.
What is HealthMap?
400
This organization provides a "seal of approval" for web sites to rate themselves on the reliability of their online health information.
What is Health on the Net?
500
According to the PRISMA scale, evidence from at least 1 randomized controlled trial would get this rating in a systematic review.
What is IB?
500
Despite understanding the translation from transfer RNA to amino acids, and advances in RNA sequencing methods, this natural process greatly hinders the ability to predict protein structure and function.
What are post-translational modifications (PTM)?
500
当地政府提供方法让病人就诊其他医院时获取上次就诊不同医院所生成的病人数据。
What is a Health Information Exchange? (This regional organization provides a way for patient data from a visit to one hospital can be made available during a visit to another hospital.)
500
When applying natural language processing (NLP) to tweets, which two linguistic levels are most likely to be affected by the 140-character limit?
What are morphology and syntax?
500
This is the positive predictive value of a test that has a 90% sensitivity and a 99% specificity for a disease that is present in 2% of the population.
What is 64.7%?
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