Improving Healthcare with Interactive Visualization

Author

Shneiderman, Ben ; Plaisant, Catherine ; Hesse, B.W.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Volume

46

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

66

Abstract

Visualization and visual analytics re-searchers can contribute substantial technological advances to support the reliable, effective, safe, and validated systems required for personal health, clinical healthcare, and public health policy-making. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/KLlStIfGUZQ is a video showing how Oracle Health Sciences Institute is supporting research at the University of Maryland that is helping medical professionals analyze millions of patient records by developing a powerful data visualization tool called EventFlow.

Keywords

data visualisation; health care; interactive systems; medical information systems; patient care; EventFlow; Oracle Health Sciences Institute; clinical healthcare; data visualization tool; interactive visualization; patient records; personal health; public health policy making; substantial technological advance; visual analytics researchers; Biomedical imaging; Data visualization; Informatics; Public healthcare; Visual analytics; Visual databases; Visualization; EHRs; biomedical informatics; electronic health records; healthcare; information visualization; medical informatics; personal medical devices; visual analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2013.38

Filename

6415893