Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Intellectual Structure of Health and Medical Informatics

This paper presents the results of an author co-citation analysis of the health and medical informatics discipline. It updates a smaller study that focused on health information systems. Drawing on such sub-fields as bio informatics, clinic...

Medical Informatics: An Introduction

1. Information Processing in Medicine.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Overlap With Other Disciplines.- 2. Informatics.- 2.1 Structure.- 2.2 Fundamental Concepts.- 2.2.1 Message and Information.- 2.2.1.1 Events, Probability.- 2.2.1.2 SHANNON'S Info...

Medical informatics education.

Medical Informatics is a multidisciplinary field, dealing mainly with informatics and technology applications in health care. Medical Informatics is composed from a number of sub-areas such as computer based patient record (CPR), processing...

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for Interoperability in Health Research: Systematic Review

BackgroundThe standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is widely used in health information technology. However, its use as a standard for health research is still less prevalent. To use existing data sources more efficien...

EPEPT: A web service for enhanced P-value estimation in permutation tests

Abstract Background In computational biology, permutation tests have become a widely used tool to assess the statistical significance of an event under investigation. However, the common way of computing the P-value, which expresses the sta...

Real-World Evaluation of AI-Driven Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Public Health Settings: Validation and Implementation Study

Abstract BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) algorithms offer an effective solution to alleviate the burden of diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening in public health settings. However, there are challenges in translating diagno...

Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool

COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveilla...

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

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...

Software Engineering Education in Medical Informatics

Requirements and approaches of Software Engineering education in the field of Medical Informatics are described with respect to the impact of (1) experiences characterizing the "software misery", (2) status and tendencies in software method...

Performance of computational algorithms to deconvolve heterogeneous bulk ovarian tumor tissue depends on experimental factors

Abstract Background Single-cell gene expression profiling provides unique opportunities to understand tumor heterogeneity and the tumor microenvironment. Because of cost and feasibility, profiling bulk tumors remains the primary population-...

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

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...

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

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 ...

Behavioral dataset for Long-Evans and its schizophrenia-like substrain through several generations

Abstract We present a high-throughput behavioral dataset acquired with Ambitus, an automated reward-based corridor system that records locomotor and exploratory activities and cognitive functions after minimal handling. The collection conta...

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

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...

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Similar to iSchools, healthcare is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses heterogeneous environments (e.g., hospitals, clinics, home) and perspectives. However, medical informatics research focuses mainly on technical solutions to narr...

Fifty years in medical informatics.

OBJECTIVES: An overview of personal experiences in medical informatics based on Dr. Morris Collen's 50 years of research in the field. METHODS: A personal reminiscence and historical overview, focusing on the first two decades of medical in...

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

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...

Dataset for the dimethyl sulfoxide as a novel thermodynamic inhibitor of carbon dioxide hydrate formation

The temperatures and pressures of the three-phase equilibrium V-Lw-H (gas – aqueous solution – gas hydrate) were measured in the CO2 – H2O – dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) system at concentrations of organic solute in the aqueous phase up to 50 ...

Application Strategies for Artificial Intelligence–based Clinical Decision Support System: From the Simulation to the Real-World

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

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...