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"3-Star EHR Visualization"
Robert S. Laramee, MSc., PhD, SFHEA
Professor of Visualization, The University of Nottingham
ABSTRACT: Since the inception of electronic health records (EHR) and population health records (PopHR), the volume of archived digital health records is growing rapidly. Large volumes of heterogeneous health records require advanced visualization and visual analytics systems to uncover valuable insight buried in complex databases. As a vibrant sub-field of information visualization and visual analytics, many interactive EHR and PopHR visualization (EHR Vis) systems have been proposed, developed, and evaluated by clinicians to support effective clinical analysis and decision making. We present the state-of-the-art (STAR) of EHR Vis literature and open access healthcare data sources and provide an up-to-date overview on this important topic. We identify trends and challenges in the field and introduce novel literature and data classifications. We then focus on two targeted applications: visualization of clinic letters and geospatial visualization of population health records. In both applications, we provide more detailed visualization solutions to exploring and visual analysis of EHRs and PopHRs. The presentation provides a valuable overview of EHR Vis revealing both mature areas and potential future multidisciplinary research directions.
BIO: Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria at the
Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at) and a software engineer at AVL (https://www.avl.com/en) in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. Previously he was an Associate Professor at Swansea
University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). He is currently a professor at Nottingham University, School of Computer Science. His research interests are in the areas of big data visualization, visual analytics, and data science. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers in scientific conferences and journals. For more information, please visit: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/blaramee/