Stony Brook University, Stony Brook.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2013 Nov;19(11):1895-910. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.89.
The Five Ws is a popular concept for information gathering in journalistic reporting. It captures all aspects of a story or incidence: who, when, what, where, and why. We propose a framework composed of a suite of cooperating visual information displays to represent the Five Ws and demonstrate its use within a healthcare informatics application. Here, the who is the patient, the where is the patient's body, and the when, what, why is a reasoning chain which can be interactively sorted and brushed. The patient is represented as a radial sunburst visualization integrated with a stylized body map. This display captures all health conditions of the past and present to serve as a quick overview to the interrogating physician. The reasoning chain is represented as a multistage flow chart, composed of date, symptom, data, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. Our system seeks to improve the usability of information captured in the electronic medical record (EMR) and we show via multiple examples that our framework can significantly lower the time and effort needed to access the medical patient information required to arrive at a diagnostic conclusion.
“五个 W”是新闻报道中一种流行的信息收集概念。它涵盖了故事或事件的所有方面：谁、何时、什么、何处和为何。我们提出了一个由一系列协作的可视化信息显示组成的框架，以表示“五个 W”，并在医疗信息学应用中展示其用途。在这里，“谁”是患者，“何处”是患者的身体，“何时”、“什么”、“为何”是一个可以交互排序和刷选的推理链。患者被表示为一个与风格化身体地图集成的辐射状扇形图可视化。此显示捕获了过去和现在的所有健康状况，作为询问医生的快速概述。推理链表示为一个多阶段流程图，由日期、症状、数据、诊断、治疗和结果组成。我们的系统旨在提高电子病历（EMR）中捕获的信息的可用性，我们通过多个示例表明，我们的框架可以显著降低访问做出诊断结论所需的医疗患者信息所需的时间和精力。
