Academic Articles & Research Papers

Health technology and health technology assessment

In addition to the doctor, technology is an essential aspect of healthcare. In many parts of the world, a visit to the doctor does not feel complete without a prescription for a drug. Advanced laboratory and imaging technology is indispensa...

Mobile Health Technology Evaluation

The Problem of Health Technology

Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems, and The Problem of Health Technology offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic. The book illuminates the scientific and policy arguments tha...

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medical Informatics

The utilization of information and communication technologies in almost all spheres of modern society has changed the social picture in significant ways while simultaneously leading to tensions with regard to traditional ethical and legal p...

Education in Medical Informatics in the Federal Republic of Germany))

The paper deals with the present situation of education at the academic level in Medical Informatics (or Medical Information Science, Electronic Data Processing applied to medicine and the health care service etc.) in the Federal Republic o...

First Accreditation of a Medical Informatics Program by the European Federation of Medical Informatics: Experiences

BACKGROUND: European universities offer a variety of programs in Medical Informatics. The Europen Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) offers accreditation of these programs. OBJECTIVES: To describe the process of EFMI accreditation of ...

Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

A current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship.

OBJECTIVE: The article offers a current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship. NARRATIVE: The authors: (1) discuss how definitions of medical informatics have changed in relation to health sciences librariansh...

Effect of Interactive eHealth Interventions on Improving Medication Adherence in Adults With Long-Term Medication: Systematic Review

BackgroundMedication nonadherence leads to suboptimal treatment outcomes, making it a major priority in health care. eHealth provides an opportunity to offer medication adherence interventions with minimal effort from health care providers ...

Oh brother, where art tau? Amyloid, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline without elevated tau

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an early manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, other pathologic entities [e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Lewy body disease, LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy)], ...

A noncanonical AR addiction drives enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer

Resistance to second generation anti-androgen therapies such as enzalutamide (ENZ) can emerge in prostate cancer patients. Here, the authors identify an ENZ-resistant mechanism driven by AR-dependent transcription of noncanonical targets th...

Full-thickness skin graft versus split-thickness skin graft for radial forearm free flap donor site closure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background The radial forearm free flap (RFFF) serves as a workhorse for a variety of reconstructions. Although there are a variety of surgical techniques for donor site closure after RFFF raising, the most common techniques are cl...

Dichloroacetate as a metabolic modulator of heart mitochondrial proteome under conditions of reduced oxygen utilization

Abstract Myocardial compensatory mechanisms stimulated by reduced oxygen utilization caused by streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus (DM) and treated with dichloroacetate (DCA) are presumably associated with the regulation of mitochondri...

Mapping Chinese Medical Entities to the Unified Medical Language System

Background. Chinese medical entities have not been organized comprehensively due to the lack of well-developed terminology systems, which poses a challenge to processing Chinese medical texts for fine-grained medical knowledge representatio...

Exploring barriers and enablers to implementing a digital mental health crisis risk mitigation pathway in acute paediatric care: A multi-site, exploratory mixed-methods study

Objective Children and young people (CYP) presenting in mental health crisis to acute paediatric settings represent a growing clinical and system-level challenge. These environments, primarily designed for physical healthcare, frequently la...

Disrupted Functional Connectivity of Cornu Ammonis Subregions in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Longitudinal Resting-State fMRI Study

Background: The cornu ammonis (CA), as part of the hippocampal formation, represents a primary target region of neural degeneration in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). Previous studies have revealed subtle structural deficits of t...

Medical, dental, and nursing students’ attitudes and knowledge towards artificial intelligence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Nowadays, Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most popular topics that can be integrated into healthcare activities. Currently, AI is used in specialized fields such as radiology, pathology, and ophthalmology. Des...

Synergy between medical informatics and bioinformatics: facilitating genomic medicine for future health care

Assessing Acceptance and Intention to Use of Home Telemonitoring Among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation of a TAM-Based Questionnaire

Background/Objectives: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality requiring continuous monitoring and early recognition of clinical deterioration. Home telemonitoring is increasingly considered a supportive strategy fo...

Phosphorus runoff from Canadian agricultural land: A dataset for 30 experimental fields

Phosphorus (P) runoff from agricultural land plays a critical role in downstream water quality. This article summarizes P and sediment runoff data for both snowmelt and rainfall runoff from 30 arable fields in the Canadian provinces of Sask...