James H. Harrison
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. James Harrison is a pathologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Harrison is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Harrison can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Harrison may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Training in pathology informatics: implementation at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Pathology informatics questions and answers from the University of Pittsburgh pathology residency informatics rotation.
- XML syntax for clinical laboratory procedure manuals.
- Caring Connection: developing an Internet resource for family caregivers of children with cancer.
- Definition of an XML markup language for clinical laboratory procedures and comparison with generic XML markup.
- PROTEMPA: a method for specifying and identifying temporal sequences in retrospective data for patient selection.
- Clinical laboratory data are among the most detailed, objective, reliable, and useful measures of patient characteristics contained in the medical record.
- Introduction to the mining of clinical data.
- The development of health care data warehouses to support data mining.
- Multi-database mining.
- Temporal data mining.
- Abstraction-based temporal data retrieval for a Clinical Data Repository.
- Concept similarity in publications precedes cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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