Academic Articles & Research Papers

Section IV: Medical Informatics

This new 4th edition of the Medical Informatics section will offer an expanded view of the topic. In addition to the traditional subject matters covered, which have been in several cases updated, new application areas have emerged both at t...

Medical informatics in the heart of health care

Open standards in medical informatics.

Over the last few years, there has been a major effort devoted to formalizing standards for healthcare. It is vital that such standards are fully "open," whether developed by formal standards bodies or otherwise. This paper discusses the va...

Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law

Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law. Jorge L. Contreras, A. J. Cuticchia, and Gregory J. Kirsch eds., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-8390-594-4. US$230.00. - Volume 50 Issue 3...

Medical Informatics Europe 84

Medical informatics: the professional challenge

LAN, WAN, PAS, PACS, and DAT—the acronyms trip off the tongue, but still most doctors ask, “What is medical informatics?” It presents an alluring vision. Take the all too familiar nightmare of a doctor in a busy outpatient clinic, reviewing...

Medical informatics meets medical education

Reflections Towards the Future of Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVE: To provide guidance on the future development and role of medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics, in form of reflections. METHOD: To report on the author's previous activities as a medical informatician, which ...

SAP BusinessObjects in Medical Informatics

Electronic health record (EHR) generates a large amount of data filled with opportunities to enhance documentation compliance, quality improvement, and other metrics. Various software tools exist, but many clinicians are unaware of them. Ou...

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

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium Proceedings

Medical informatics: where are we in 2002?

Medical Informatics embodies two rather broad domains: “medical” and “informatics.” As described by the American Medical Informatics Association, “Medical informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective o...

Medical Informatics Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract: Medical informatics, as a separate medical discipline, is quickly developing in our country, both in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In our country, medical informatics has been a separate subject for the last ten years with regard to Med...

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...

Artificial neural network–based model for sleep quality prediction for frontline medical staff during major medical assistance

Background: The sleep quality of medical staff was severely affected during COVID-19, but the factors influencing the sleep quality of frontline staff involved in medical assistance remained unclear, and screening tools for their sleep qual...

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...

Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...

Data for the co-expression and purification of human recombinant CaMKK2 in complex with calmodulin in Escherichia coli

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) has been implicated in a range of conditions and pathologies from prostate to hepatic cancer. Here, we describe the expression in Escherichia coli and the purification protocol for the f...

Machine learning framework for early identification of high-spending Crohn’s disease patients using administrative claims

Objectives To develop and evaluate a machine learning (ML) model that predicts Crohn’s disease (CD) patients responsible for the top quartile of healthcare spending.Methods De-identified commercial claims (2016–2018) from ~267 000 continuou...

Online peer support for Young Onset Dementia is a promising resource, but not a panacea: a commentary from the INTERDEM Young Onset Dementia taskforce