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RadMonitor: Radiology Operations Data Mining in Real Time

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This paper describes the web-based visualization interface of RadMonitor, a platform-independent web application designed to help manage the complexity of information flow within a health care enterprise. The system eavesdrops on Health Layer 7 traffic and parses statistical operational information into a database. The information is then presented to the user as a treemap—a graphical visualization scheme that simplifies the display of hierarchical information. While RadMonitor has been implemented for the purpose of analyzing radiology operations, its XML backend allows it to be reused for virtually any other hierarchical data set.

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  1. Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2343 Quarry Valley Road, Columbus, OH, 43204, USA

    Richard Chen

  2. Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Medical School, 448 East Ontario Street Ste 300, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Pattanasak Mongkolwat & David S. Channin

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Chen, R., Mongkolwat, P. & Channin, D.S. RadMonitor: Radiology Operations Data Mining in Real Time. J Digit Imaging 21, 257–268 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-007-9033-8

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