Academic Articles & Research Papers

Patients’ needs and experiences of telerehabilitation after total hip and knee arthroplasty: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis

Background The number of patients undergoing joint replacement procedures is continuously increasing. Tele-equipment is progressively being employed for postrehabilitation of total hip and knee replacements. Gaining a comprehensive understa...

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...

Impact of medical informatics on medical education.

In recent years, medical informatics has become a well-recognized branch of medicine. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines information technology and various specialties of medicine. The impact of medical informatics on medical e...

Medical Informatics as a Scientific Discipline

[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...

Tele-Critical Care at 25 Years Old

This editorial reviews and reflects how the approach to Tele-critical care has changed from its first inception, through the COVID pandemic and into todays telemedicine world....

Data on gender-equitable healthcare accessibility in Northern Nigeria

Gender equity, particularly in healthcare, has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. The goal is to ensure that everyone has equal access to quality healthcare services irrespective of age, gender, or socio-economic status. How...

A standardized European hexagon gridded dataset based on OpenStreetMap POIs

Point of interest (POI) data refers to information about the location and type of amenities, services, and attractions within a geographic area. This data is used in urban studies research to better understand the dynamics of a city, assess...

Dataset on perception of public college students on underage drinking in Nigeria

Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among youths in Nigeria. Underage drinking poses a serious public health problem in most colleges and despite the health and safety risk, consumption of alcohol is rising. Having recourse t...

AI scribes as novice performers: Insights from simulation science

Electronic health system: Development and implementation into the health system of the Republic of Serbia

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Medical informatics: A review article

Medical Informatics: A Review Article Key Words : Medical Informatics , Health Informatics , Information Technology...

Medical Informatics in Morocco

OBJECTIVES: Informatics is an essential tool for helping to transform healthcare from a paper-based to a digital sector. This article explores the state-of-the-art of health informatics in Morocco. Specifically, it aims to give a general ov...

Medical informatics education

Medical informatics is still in its early stages of evolution and definition. If informatics is to obtain the status of a specialized field of study within the health science curriculum, its ambiguity must be eliminated. This article discus...

The Road to Professionalism in Medical Informatics: A Proposal for Debate

Abstract: Medical Informatics has not as yet reached professional status. However, as an expanding and increasingly important discipline in the delivery of healthcare, it is important that it strives towards professionalisation. In this art...

On the foundation and structure of medical informatics.

The authors from China and the United States take medical informatics from theory to practice by improving its research, application, and dissemination and by expanding its educational potential. We built a theoretical model and discussed i...

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....