Biomedical subjects

Tadamasa Takemura

Publications and source records attributed to Tadamasa Takemura.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

Transfusion checkup system using mobile terminals.

Kyoto University Hospital introduces a new hospital information system on January 2005. The system introduces ubiquitous information system using mobile terminals for nursing information support and implements a transfusion checkup system, as a single error in the transfusion process may result in a serious accident. The developed system carefully designed to suit real workflow and to make full use of the benefits of mobile terminals increases efficiency and the safety of transfusion.

Blood Transfusion↗

PubMed2004

Development of web-based qualitative and quantitative data collection systems: study on daily symptoms and coping strategies among Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients.

With the sharp rise in Internet access in recent years, the Internet is increasingly being used for research. We have developed two new systems using the Internet for both quantitative and qualitative data collection. One is a dynamic system for creating questionnaires and collecting responses and the other is an individual patient support follow-up system. These systems do not depend on the capacity of computers or servers and enable researchers to interact with participants privately and asynchronously. We have used these systems to collect data on daily symptoms and journal entries from 12 community-dwelling women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for a minimum of 1 month. The mean number of data submissions per month was 14.2 +/- 7.8, with the majority recording entries every day, and some submitting several times a day. The combination of two types of data elucidated the changes in coping and coping strategies in conjunction with changes in symptoms, even in a single day, and the coexistence of positive and negative coping. Research participants benefited from web-based symptom management and counseling resulting from 1 month of frequent interactions with the researcher. The use of the Internet for nursing research and interventions thus seems to show promising results.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed2002

A study of the medical record interface to natural language processing.

The information about a patient tends to be handled more on a computer system. However, it is not sufficiently rational enough because of the fundamental difference between man and a computer. Up to now, man has treated information using a natural language. Therefore, if it can be applied to handle medical information electrically, that will become more rational. For this reason, we developed a new classification method that interfaces a computer with the human being, using a natural language. This method was named as a situation-oriented medical record, and this depicts changes in a situation by the case frame from a viewpoint of man's cognition. Moreover, the medical communication by a natural language, which is currently used when a patient changes a hospital, was analyzed in order to confirm the validity of this method. In addition, we developed a prototype system that allows computers to implement this kind of communication.

Humans↗