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Challenges and conditions for successfully implementing and adopting the telematics infrastructure in German outpatient healthcare: A qualitative study applying the NASSS framework

Kim Nordmann, Stefanie Sauter, Marie-Christin Redlich, Patricia Möbius-Lerch et al. • Digital Health (2024)

Background Germany's healthcare system provides high-quality, universal health coverage to almost all residents. However, a major challenge lies in the strong separation of healthcare structures, which hinders efficient interprofessional an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076241259855

Optimal@NRW: optimized acute care of nursing home residents using an intersectoral telemedical cooperation network — study protocol for a stepped-wedge trial

David Brücken, Jenny Unterkofler, Sophie Pauge, Jonas Bienzeisler et al. • Trials (2022)

Abstract Background Increasing life expectancy is associated with a growing number of people living in nursing homes, while the availability of outpatient medical care, especially from family doctors, is stagnating in this sector. Consequen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06613-1

Pitfalls in the use of whole slide imaging for the diagnosis of central nervous system tumors: A pilot study in surgical neuropathology

Melike Pekmezci, Sanem Pinar Uysal, Yelda Orhan, Tarik Tihan et al. • Journal of Pathology Informatics (2016)

Background: Whole slide imaging (WSI) finds increasingly higher value in everyday surgical pathology in addition to its well-established use for educational and research purposes. However, its diagnostic utility, especially in subspecialty ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/2153-3539.181769

Caring for Computers: The Hidden Work of Clinical Nurses during the Introduction of Health Information Systems in a Teaching Hospital in Taiwan

Feng-Tzu Huang • Nursing Reports (2021)

Implementing health information systems for enhancing patient care and management occurs worldwide. Discovering how nurses, as important system end-users, experience technology-reliant clinical practice involved focus groups (n = 25) and in...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nursrep11010011

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting

Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Daniela Vaca, Deena El-Gabri, Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2018)

Abstract Background To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. Methods Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was develo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-018-0973-0

Dopamine transporter binding in symptomatic controls and healthy volunteers: Considerations for neuroimaging trials

Emma A. Honkanen, Mikael Eklund, Simo Nuuttila, Tommi Noponen et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical (2021)

Objective: To evaluate possible differences between brain dopamine transporter (DAT) binding in a group of symptomatic parkinsonism patients without dopaminergic degeneration and healthy individuals. Background: Dopaminergic neuroimaging st...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102807

Longitudinal analysis of white matter and cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis

Mário João Fartaria, Tobias Kober, Cristina Granziera, Meritxell Bach Cuadra • NeuroImage: Clinical (2019)

Purpose: The goals of this study were to assess the performance of a novel lesion segmentation tool for longitudinal analyses, as well as to validate the generated lesion progression map between two time points using conventional and non-co...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101938

Identifying Applied Aspects, Medical Fields, and Technological Trends in Developing Future Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Telemedicine

Ali Mobini-Dehkordi, Jahangir Yadolai-Farsi, Abolghasem Arabiun, Mustafa Keshavarz-Turk • مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت (2021)

Introduction: Parallel with the growth of technologies, which affect the telemedicine, timely identification of telemedicine entrepreneurial opportunities seems to be necessary for the product development. This study aimed to identify appli...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22122/him.v17i6.4230

Remote Patient Monitoring System for Polypathological Older Adults at High Risk for Hospitalization: Retrospective Cohort Study

Damien Testa, Israa Salma, Vincent Iborra, Victoire Roussel et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2025)

Abstract BackgroundHealth care systems are increasingly facing challenges posed by the aging of populations. In particular, hospitalization, both initial and subsequent, is often observed among older adult patients. However, res...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/71527

Classroom Management Strategies of Multigrade Schools with Emphasis on the Role of Technology

Taraneh Enayati, Farshideh Zameni, Mousa Movahedian • Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences (2016)

Introduction : It appears that the effectiveness of a multigrade school class is dependent on the type of class management. Therefore this study aims to determine the classroom management strategies in multigrade schools with emphasis on th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5812/ijvlms.12161

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol

Siân Lowri Griffiths, Graham K Murray, Yanakan Logeswaran, John Ainsworth et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2024)

BackgroundEarly intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority yout...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/50177

Indivisibility and Variety of Medical Informatics

Hans-Jürgen Seelos • Methods of Information in Medicine (1988)

Summary In recent editorials it has been pointed out that medical informatics, seen as comprehensive health care informatics, should be understood as the science of information processing and engineering of automated information systems wit...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1635536

A method for automatically extracting infectious disease-related primers and probes from the literature

Pérez-Rey David, de la Iglesia Diana, de la Calle Guillermo, López-Campos Guillermo et al. • BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

Abstract Background Primer and probe sequences are the main components of nucleic acid-based detection systems. Biologists use primers and probes for different tasks, some related to the diagnosis and prescription of infectious diseases. Th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-410

Development and validation of an interpretable machine learning model for predicting the risk of coronary heart disease risk in diabetes mellitus patients: a dual-center retrospective study

Ye Kuang, Yan Yu, Jing Li, Chuanmei Peng et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2026)

Abstract Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) combined with coronary heart disease (CHD) significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular events with a greater mortality rate. Therefore, establishing a predictive model can help DM patients r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12911-026-03461-w

Behind the scars: adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury disorder show profound personality pathology

Manuela Gander, Kirstin Goth, Josef Fritz, Kathrin Sevecke • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (2026)

Abstract Background Non-suicidal self-injury is a significant clinical concern in adolescent psychiatry and frequently co-occurs with a range of psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13034-026-01075-8

Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of E-learning from the Perspective of Experts in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic

Mahdi Moeinikia, Shahram Mehravar Giglouu, Salim Kazami, Meisam Mirzaei Shojakhanlou et al. • Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences (2022)

Background: Today, e-learning has become one of the basic components of education process, especially in higher education. Institutions and universities employ e-learning extensively in their educational operations. In light of this, the go...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30476/ijvlms.2022.94428.1133

Image-Based RCS Estimation from Near-Field Data

Tushar Rajvanshi, Maria Antonia Maisto, Angela Dell’Aversano, Raffaele Solimene • Journal of Imaging (2019)

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the RCS from near-field data by image-based approaches. In particular, a rigorous focusing procedure based on a weighted adjoint scheme, which is also applicable to an arbitrary measurement cu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jimaging5060061

Identification of brain regions predicting epileptogenesis by serial [18F]GE-180 positron emission tomography imaging of neuroinflammation in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Vera Russmann, Matthias Brendel, Erik Mille, Angela Helm-Vicidomini et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical (2017)

Excessive activation of inflammatory signaling pathways seems to be a hallmark of epileptogenesis. Positron emission tomography (PET) allows in vivo detection of brain inflammation with spatial information and opportunities for longitudinal...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.04.003

Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) Findings of Complications of Acute Cholecystitis. A Pictorial Essay

Fabio Sandomenico, Luca Sanduzzi, Emilia La Verde, Emilio Vicenzo et al. • Tomography (2022)

Acute cholecystitis stands out as one of the most common surgical pathologies that should always be considered in a right-upper abdominal pain emergency. For this, the importance of a correct diagnosis is well described. However, it has bee...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/tomography8020095