Academic Articles & Research Papers

On Medical Informatics

This paper summarizes the author's point of view of defining medical informatics, to stimulate further discussions on how this "newly emerging discipline" should further proceed. We realize that the term "informatics" is related rather to t...

A systematic view on medical informatics

Where's the Science in Medical Informatics?

Charles P. Friedman, PhD; Where's the Science in Medical Informatics?, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1 January 199...

Yearbook of Medical Informatics

The Use and Interpretation of Quasi-Experimental Studies in Medical Informatics

Quasi-experimental study designs, often described as nonrandomized, pre-post intervention studies, are common in the medical informatics literature. Yet little has been written about the benefits and limitations of the quasi-experimental ap...

Medical Informatics and the Science of Cognition

Recent developments in medical informatics research have afforded possibilities for great advances in health care delivery. These exciting opportunities also present formidable challenges to the implementation and integration of technologie...

Aims and tasks of medical informatics

Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Health and Medical Informatics

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on international recommendations in health informatics/medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this fi...

Patient-reported outcomes and measures for vaginal relaxation syndrome management: a systematic review

Abstract Background The heterogeneity of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in published clinical studies on vaginal relaxation syndrome (VRS) hinders cross-study comparisons and integration of ev...

Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2009)

Sources of Information and Behavioral Patterns in Online Health Forums: Observational Study

BackgroundIncreasing numbers of patients are raising their voice in online forums. This shift is welcome as an act of patient autonomy, reflected in the term “expert patient”. At the same time, there is considerable concern that patients ca...

Hiperentorno como medio de enseñanza del proceso atención de enfermería a pacientes con afecciones osteomioarticulares

Fundamento: En la enseñanza de las ciencias de la salud los medios informáticos ocupan un lugar fundamental. Objetivo: Determinar la pertinencia de un hiperentorno en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la atención de enfermería a pacientes con afe...

i-MoMCARE: AI-enabled mobile app for maternal and child health care in Cambodia – a pilot implementation and evaluation study

Objectives In Cambodia, village health support groups (VHSGs) are central to maternal and child health (MCH) service delivery, yet maternal mortality remains high with regional disparities. Although digital health solutions show promise, th...

Relating increasing hantavirus incidences to the changing climate: the mast connection

Abstract Background Nephropathia epidemica (NE), an emerging rodent-borne viral disease, has become the most important cause of infectious acute renal failure in Belgium, with sharp increases in incidence occurring for more than a decade. B...

Grand Challenges in Medical Informatics?

Dean F. Sittig, PhD; Grand Challenges in Medical Informatics?, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 September 1994, Pag...

Methods in Medical Informatics

Too often, healthcare workers are led to believe that medical informatics is a complex field that can only be mastered by teams of professional programmers. This is simply not the case. With just a few dozen simple algorithms, easily implem...

Probabilistic Modeling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics

German Medical Informatics Initiative

This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on the German Medical Informatics Initiative. The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) was launched within the scope of the German Federal Ministry of Education a...

Handbook of Medical Informatics

Data Processing.- Database Management.- Telecommunication, Networking, and Integration.- Coding and Classification.- The Patient Record.- Biosignal Analysis.- Medical Imaging.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Primary Care.- Clinical Departm...

A Primer on Aspects of Cognition for Medical Informatics

As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and cognitive sciences. The cognitive sciences can provide important insights into the nature o...