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HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

Maria Carolina Salustino dos Santos, Ana Emília Araújo de Oliveira, Raquel Carvalho Lima, Iracema Vitória Gomes Lins Paz et al. • Health and Society (2022)

The use of health technologies provides better health management, anchored in equity, communication and governance in health. Technologies are conceptualized as a tool, which helps from planning to the execution of activities, and can be ap...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.51249/hs.v2i02.1011

The Decellularized Calf Testis: Introducing Suitable Scaffolds for Spermatogenesis Studies

Mohammad Rasool Khazaei, Zahra Ami, Mozafar Khazaei, Leila Rezakhani • International Journal of Fertility and Sterility (2024)

Background: Men’s infertility and lack of production of healthy and active sperm are concerns of recent years in mostcountries. Studies on the preparation of extracellular matrix (ECM) from decellularization of testis tissue and spermatogen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22074/ijfs.2023.1989173.1433

Mobile health technology and empowerment

Karola Kreitmair • Bioethics (2023)

Mobile Health (m-health) technologies, such as wearables, apps, and smartwatches, are increasingly viewed as tools for improving health and well-being. In particular, such technologies are conceptualized as means for laypersons to master th...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13157

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

Jasper J.E. Moors, Zhibin Xu, Kunpeng Xie, Ashkan Rashad et al. • Systematic Reviews (2024)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13643-024-02471-x

The Comparability of Men Who Have Sex With Men Recruited From Venue-Time-Space Sampling and Facebook: A Cohort Study

Hernandez-Romieu, Alfonso C, Sullivan, Patrick S, Sanchez, Travis H, Kelley, Colleen F et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2014)

BackgroundRecruiting valid samples of men who have sex with men (MSM) is a key component of the US human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance and of research studies seeking to improve HIV prevention for MSM. Social media, such as Face...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3342

Key Variables for Effective eHealth Designs for Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders: 2^12-4 Fractional Factorial Experiment

Rotondi, Armando J, Grady, Jonathan, Hanusa, Barbara H, Haas, Gretchen L et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021)

BackgroundeHealth applications not only offer the potential to increase service convenience and responsiveness but also expand the ability to tailor services to improve relevance, engagement, and use. To achieve these goals, it is critical ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/23137

SAP BusinessObjects in Medical Informatics

Iwan Sofjan, Irim Salik, Peter Panzica • Cureus (2023)

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...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40208 PMC: 10331897

Demonstration of high value care to improve oral health of a remote Indigenous community in Australia

Sanjeewa Kularatna, Ratilal Lalloo, Jeroen Kroon, Santosh K. K. Tadakamadla et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2020)

Abstract Background The oral health of Indigenous children in remote communities is much worse than other population groups in Australia. Providing and maintaining an oral health service is challenging due to the remoteness of communities, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01300-8

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Monika Czerwińska, Marcin Gruszecki, Jacek Rumiński, Rita Hansdorfer-Korzon • BMC Women's Health (2025)

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-025-03834-9

SequelTools: a suite of tools for working with PacBio Sequel raw sequence data

David E. Hufnagel, Matthew B. Hufford, Arun S. Seetharam • BMC Bioinformatics (2020)

Abstract Background PacBio sequencing is an incredibly valuable third-generation DNA sequencing method due to very long read lengths, ability to detect methylated bases, and its real-time sequencing methodology. Yet, hitherto no tool was av...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03751-8

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

Carina Nina Vorisek, Moritz Lehne, Sophie Anne Ines Klopfenstein, Paula Josephine Mayer et al. • JMIR Medical Informatics (2022)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/35724

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

Melike Pekmezci, Sanem Pinar Uysal, Yelda Orhan, Tarik Tihan et al. • Journal of Pathology Informatics (2016)

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 ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/2153-3539.181769

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Saira Naim Haque, Carsten S. Østerlund, Madhu C Reddy • Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2010)

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...

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Examining Rural and Urban Sentiment Difference in COVID-19–Related Topics on Twitter: Word Embedding–Based Retrospective Study

Yongtai Liu, Zhijun Yin, Congning Ni, Chao Yan et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023)

BackgroundBy the end of 2022, more than 100 million people were infected with COVID-19 in the United States, and the cumulative death rate in rural areas (383.5/100,000) was much higher than in urban areas (280.1/100,000). As the pandemic s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/42985

A Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome extranet: supporting local communication and information dissemination

Kealey Cathy M, Akhtar-Danesh Noori, Valaitis Ruta K, Brunetti Glenn M et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2005)

Abstract Background The objective of this study was to explore the use and perceptions of a local Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Extranet and its potential to support future information and communication applications. The SARS Ext...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-5-17

Is telemedicine a subset of medical informatics?

Shyamala Nagendran, David Moores, Rick Spooner, Jean A. C. Triscott • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare (2000)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1258/1357633001935563

“I think it's something that we should lean in to”: The use of OpenNotes in Canadian psychiatric care contexts by clinicians

Iman Kassam, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Keri Durocher, Brian Lo et al. • Digital Health (2022)

Background OpenNotes is the concept of patients having access to their health records and clinical notes in a digital form. In psychiatric settings, clinicians often feel uncomfortable with this concept, and require support during implement...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076221144106

Medical Informatics and eHealth

Paul J. McCullagh, Zheng Huiru, Norman D. Black, Richard John Davies et al. • Studies in health technology and informatics (2010)

Medical Informatics comprises the theoretical and practical aspects of information processing and communication, based on knowledge and experience derived from processes in medicine and healthcare. The processing takes place within computer...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-527-3-121