Academic Articles & Research Papers

Challenges for Medical Informatics as an Academic Discipline

In March 2001, twenty members of the informatics community gathered in Madrid, Spain, to discuss the state of our field as an academic discipline and the challenges that university-based workers in health informatics face.The workshop, held...

Is telemedicine a subset of medical informatics?

Informatics has a key characteristic of a new discipline in a technically transient environment--there is no universal definition of it. This is not surprising, given its complex and diverse nature. In a broad sense informatics is the inter...

[Medical informatics--today and tomorrow].

The status of medical informatics, a comparatively new biomedical discipline beginning to develop in the second half of the 20th century, is described at the transition into the 21st century. The appearance of new information and communicat...

Evolution of medical informatics in bibliographic databases

Medical informatics became a medical specialty during the last years and this is evidenced by a great amount of journal articles regarding the subject published worldwide. We compared the presentation of Medical Informatics in two different...

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Care Utilization: An Analysis of Primary Care Claims Data in Alberta, Canada

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted primary health care systems worldwide, prompting rapid changes in how care was delivered. In Alberta, this included a significant shift from in-person to virtual care. This study examines trends i...

A novel and accelerated method for integrated alignment and variant calling from short and long reads

BackgroundIntegrating short- and long-read sequencing technologies has become a promising approach for achieving accurate and comprehensive genomic analysis. Although short-read sequencing (Illumina, etc.) offers high base accuracy and cost...

Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics in Medical Research

OBJECTIVES: Computers are widely used for data management in clinical trials in the developed countries, unlike in developing countries. Dependable systems are vital for data management, and medical decision making in clinical research. Mon...

Trends in Proportion of Delirium Among Older Emergency Department Patients in South Korea, 2017–2022

Introduction: Delirium is a critical neuropsychiatric condition that surged among older adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, likely due to social isolation resulting from distancing measures. In this study we exam...

Estimation of the probability of daily fluctuations of incidence of COVID-19 according to official data

When studying the dynamics of morbidity and mortality, one should not limit ourselves to analyzing general trends. Interesting information can be obtained from the analysis of deviations in morbidity and mortality from the general dynamics....

eHealth for Addressing Balance Disorders in the Elderly: Systematic Review

BackgroundThe population is aging on a global scale, triggering vulnerability for chronic multimorbidity, balance disorders, and falls. Falls with injuries are the main cause of accidental death in the elderly population, representing a rel...

The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data

The archaeological site of Březnice (Czechia) represents one of the large settlements of the Late Bronze Age (Ha A2/B1, 14C: 1124–976 BC) in Bohemia. The site became known mainly for a high number of so-called ‘trenches’, oblong pit feature...

A real-world clinical validation for AI-based MRI monitoring in multiple sclerosis

Abstract Modern management of MS targets No Evidence of Disease Activity (NEDA): no clinical relapses, no magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disease activity and no disability worsening. While MRI is the principal tool available to neurologis...

Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

Abstract Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has a strong association with depression or physical and mental health in general. However, as SES is a multifaceted construct these associations are not easy to explain. Further, there are sev...

A Focus on Simulation in Medical Informatics

This special issue of JAMIA addresses simulation, a methodology that holds great promise for the advancement of information technology in health care. Simulation has been termed a third domain, complementing both natural language and mathem...

Contemporary issues in medicine–medical informatics and population health

The Association of American Medical Colleges established the Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP) to set forth program-level learning objectives that medical school deans and faculties can use as guides in reviewing their medical studen...

Medical Informatics for Medical Students: Not Just Because It's There

There has been increasing interest in the use of computers in medical education, but there has been less attention given to the rationale for the use and selection of applications. This article discusses an approach to the selection of medi...

Formal Education in Medical Informatics

A specialized curriculum for education in medical informatics at university level was initiated jointly by the University of Heidelberg and the Polytechnical School of Heilbronn in 1972. The experience gained during the past decade is revie...

Role of the Internet in Solving the Last Mile Problem in Medicine

Internet-augmented medicine has a strong role to play in ensuring that all populations benefit equally from discoveries in the medical sciences. Yet, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected from 1999 to 2014 sugge...

Datasets associated with investigating the potential for beneficial reuse of produced water from oil and gas extraction outside of the energy sector

The data in this report are associated with https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137085 [4] and include data on water volumes and water quality related to the major unconventional oil and gas plays in the U.S. The data include volumes o...