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James J. Cimino

Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Publications -  390
Citations -  14092

James J. Cimino is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unified Medical Language System & Information needs. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 367 publications receiving 12899 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Cimino include Duke University & Rutgers University.

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Patterns of usage for a Web-based clinical information system.

TL;DR: This work has analyzed the log files of the Web-based clinical information system (WebCIS) to obtain various usage statistics including which WebCIS features are frequently being used and also identified usage patterns, which convey how the user is traversing the system.
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Scenario-based assessment of physicians' information needs.

TL;DR: An analysis of clinical questions collected when physicians were engaged in reviewing clinical cases to provide insight into the development of a conceptual guidance approach in information retrieval showed that physicians' information needs exhibited distinct characteristics according to the scenarios, and that their needs could be expressed with a relatively small number of question patterns.
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Don't take your EHR to heaven, donate it to science: legal and research policies for EHR post mortem

TL;DR: This perspective paper looks at legal and regulatory policies for EHR data post mortem, and proposes creation of a deceased subject integrated data repository (dsIDR) as an effective tool for piloting certain types of research projects.

Characterization of the Biomedical Query Mediation Process

TL;DR: It is concluded that research data query formulation is not a straightforward translation from researcher data needs to database queries, but rather iterative, process-oriented needs assessment and refinement.