The HSIM Computation Lab is committed to advancing knowledge in various fields of interest – notably health informatics and HIIM education.
Publications
Peer Reviewed:
Hylock, R., Harris, S.T., (2017). Healthcare Database Management for Health Informatics and Information Management Students: Challenges and Instruction Strategies—Part 2. Educational Perspectives in Health Information Management.
Harris, S. & Hylock, R. (2017). Was the hyperglycemia due to a bottle of bad insulin? Journal of Case Studies, 35(1) 91-101.
Hylock, R. (2016). Cooperative Heuristics for the Federated View Selection Problem. International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, 6 (4), 80-89. Link.
Hylock, R. (2016). The Federated View Selection Problem. International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, 6 (3), 142-152. Link.
Hylock, R. (2016). UPC: Large-Scale Memory Efficient Java Primitive Collections. Journal of Software, 11 (3), 251-271. Link.
Hylock, R., Harris, S. (Winter 2016). Healthcare Database Management and HIIM Students: Challenges and Instruction Strategies – Part 1. Educational Perspectives in Health Information Management. Link.
Hylock, R., Currim, F. (2013). A Maintenance Centric Approach to the View Selection Problem. Information Systems. Link.
Boudreau, R. L., Spengler, R. M., Hylock, R. H., Kusenda, B. J., Davis, H. A., Eichmann, D. A., Davidson, B. L. (equal credit to first two authors) (2013). siSPOTR: a tool for designing highly specific and potent siRNAs for human and mouse. Nucleic Acids Research. Link.
In Preparation:
Hylock, R., Baker, E. An Optimal Off-Target Detection Algorithm with IUPAC and Unbounded Mismatch Support.
Hylock, R. Beyond Relational: A Database Architecture for Clinical Data Management.
Presentations
Peer Reviewed:
Harris, S., Hylock, R. (2016). Diabetes and ICD-10, Improving Data Capture. NCHIMA 66th Annual Meeting, May 2016, Asheville, North Carolina.
Harris, S., Hylock, R. (2015). Uncaptured Diabetes Data, until ICD-10. AHIMA Data Summit: Beyond ICD-10, August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hylock, R. (2014). Healthcare Database Management and HIM Students: Challenges and Instruction Techniques. AHIMA Assembly on Education Summer Symposium July 2014, Chicago, Illinois.
Ahuja, M., Schappet, J., Lorentzan, R., Wang, Y., Hylock, R., Leslie, K., Davis, H., Knosp, B., Santillan, M., Santillan, D. (2014). Sample and Clinical Information Link (SCI-Link) – Standardized Data Registry Management System. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, April 2014, San Fransisco, California.
Invited:
Woodward, J., Zeng, X., & Hylock, R. (2016). Impact of alcohol sale regulation on drug abuse – a secondary analysis of national data sets. ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week, Greenville, North Carolina.
Hylock, R. (2016, March). Challenges and Techniques for Querying Healthcare Databases. NCHIMA Coding Roundtable, Greenville, North Carolina.
Harris, S., Hylock, R. (2015). Uncaptured Diabetes Data, until ICD-10. Duke Informatics Research Seminar Series, November 2015, Greenville, North Carolina.
Hylock, R. (2013). Beyond Relational: A Database Architecture for Clinical Data Management. Duke Informatics Research Seminar Series, November 2013, Greenville, North Carolina.
Software
Peer Reviewed:
Hylock, R. UPC – High Performance Memory Efficient Java Primitive Collections. Array, list, hash map, hash set, and matrix primitive collections in Java utilizing the \(\texttt{sun.misc.Unsafe}\) non-public API. It provides objects (Java addresses only spaces) with a destroy feature (a standard memory reclamation option in high performance computing (HPC) favored languages not supported by Java), and primitive collection support (also not supported by Java with the exception of arrays). Published in the Journal of Software. More details here.
Hylock, R. OpenJDK9 \(\texttt{sun.misc.Unsafe}\) bulk-memory operation expansion. A customized version of Java (using OpenJDK9 – the beta release for the next Java) with bulk-memory operation support. The UPC software project comes in two flavors: one based on publicly available Java and the other on this customized JDK. Testing indicates the enhancements in this JDK significantly improve performance of \(\texttt{sun.misc.Unsafe}\)-enabled software, which, in this case, is the UPC software package. It seeks to provide the same level of support Java’s in-built array classes have. Published in the Journal of Software. More details here.
Boudreau, R. L., Spengler, R. M., Hylock, R. H., Kusenda, B. J., Davis, H. A., Eichmann, D. A., Davidson, B. L. (2013). siSPOTR – siRNA Sequence Probability-of-Off-Targeting Reduction. Published by Nucleic Acids Research. More details here.