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Electronic Self-report Assessment--Cancer (ESRA-C): Working towards an integrated survey system.

The Clinical Informatics Research Group and Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems at the University of Washington are working with interdisciplinary teams to improve patient care and tracking of patient-reported symptoms and outcomes by creating an extensible web-based survey and intervention platform. The findings and cumulative experience from these processes have led to incremental improvements and variations in each new implementation of the platform. This paper presents progress in the first year of a three-year NIH study entitled Electronic Self Report Assessment--Cancer (ESRA-C). The project's goals are to enhance and evaluate the web-based computerized patient self-reporting and assessment system at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Preliminary work and lessons learned in the modification of the platform and enhancements to the system will be described.

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Clinical value of an integrated ELISA system for the detection of 6 autoantibodies (ssDNA, dsDNA, Sm, RNP/Sm, SSA, and SSB).

An ELISA panel assay (ANA/6) which simultaneously detects IgG autoantibodies against 6 antigens (ssDNA, dsDNA, Sm, RNP/Sm, SSA, and SSB) was evaluated with sera from 98 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and related conditions, 68 disease controls, who were positive or negative by fluorescent ANA (FANA), and 100 healthy controls. The antigen panel specifically identified the particular autoantibodies present and had a high level of sensitivity which was reflected by the frequency of detection of autoantibodies in different patient groups. All active patients with SLE were positive for at least one autoantibody and 80% of these patients had 3 or more autoantibodies compared to only 20% of inactive patients. A large heterogeneity in antibody profiles was also noted. About 90% of patients with positive FANA, but no detectable autoimmune rheumatic disorder, i.e., false positive, were negative by the panel. A new method of standardization was designed to use the ANA/6 quantitatively. Very large differences in the level of all 6 autoantibodies were observed between sera from patients with active and inactive SLE, suggesting a potential usefulness of ANA/6 for patient management.

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Computer security: a necessary element of integrated information systems.

The Matheson Report sees the medical library as playing a key role in a network of interlocking information bases that will extend from central repositories of medical information to each physician's personal records. It appears, however, that the role of security in this vision has not been fully delineated. This paper discusses problems in maintaining the security of confidential medical information, the state of the applicable law, and techniques for security (with special emphasis on the UNIX operating system). It is argued that the absence of security threatens any plan to build an information network, as there will be resistance to any system that may give intruders access to confidential data.

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