Academic Articles & Research Papers

Compounds of Marine Origin with Possible Applications as Healing Agents

It is well established that marine organisms consist of a great variety of active compounds that appear exclusively in the marine environment while having the ability to be vastly reproduced, irrespective of the existing conditions. As a re...

The Role of Health Technology and Informatics in a Global Public Health Emergency: Practices and Implications From the COVID-19 Pandemic

At present, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading around the world. It is a critical and important task to take thorough efforts to prevent and control the pandemic. Compared with severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East ...

Celebratory Health Technology

There are numerous everyday health technologies (applications designed for people to use in their daily lives) that promote healthy eating habits. From educational games to monitoring applications, these systems often take a corrective appr...

Green synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles through the Piper cubeba ethanolic extract and their enzyme inhibitory activities

Introduction: The area of “Green Synthesis of Nano-medicine,” as compared to its synthetic counterparts, is a relatively safer research technology for various biomedical applications, including identification, therapeutic application, and p...

The effectiveness of M-health technologies for improving health and health services: a systematic review protocol

BACKGROUND: The application of mobile computing and communication technology is rapidly expanding in the fields of health care and public health. This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of mobile technology ...

Development of an in vitro system to study oral biofilms in real time through impedance technology: validation and potential applications

Background and objectives: We have developed a standardized, easy-to-use in vitro model to study single- and multiple-species oral biofilms in real time through impedance technology, which elucidates the kinetics of biofilm formation in 96-...

Health technology innovations

The global pandemic has drastically impacted older adults in numerous ways (e.g., loneliness; age discrimination; mental and physical health; limited access to traditional health care).On the other hand, it may have accelerated the general ...

Evolutionary Algorithms in Health Technologies

Health technology research brings together complementary interdisciplinary research skills in the development of innovative health technology applications. Recent research indicates that artificial intelligence can help achieve outstanding ...

User-Centered Design and Interactive Health Technologies for Patients

Despite recommendations that patients be involved in the design and testing of health technologies, few reports describe how to involve patients in systematic and meaningful ways to ensure that applications are customized to meet their need...

SARS and Population Health Technology

The recent global outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) provides an opportunity to study the use and impact of public health informatics and population health technology to detect and fight a global epidemic. Population healt...

Bayesian methods in health technology assessment: a review.

BACKGROUND: Bayesian methods may be defined as the explicit quantitative use of external evidence in the design, monitoring, analysis, interpretation and reporting of a health technology assessment. In outline, the methods involve formal co...

TRANSFER LEARNING: INCEPTION-V3 BASED CUSTOM CLASSIFICATION APPROACH FOR FOOD IMAGES

Deep-learning approach has become more popular in the field of image processing. When it is concerned with health issues, there are lots of improvements in the applications of food image classification by deep learning methods. Transfer lea...

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

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 ...

Training residents in medical informatics.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A number of medical educators have called for an increased emphasis on medical informatics training, but few family practice residency programs have provided more than cursory teaching efforts in this area. This p...

Are Medical Informatics and Nursing Informatics Distinct Disciplines?: The 1999 ACMI Debate

The 1999 debate of the American College of Medical Informatics focused on the proposition that medical informatics and nursing informatics are distinctive disciplines that require their own core curricula, training programs, and professiona...

Medical Informatics/Computers in Medicine

Quietly over the past 25 years, the field of medical informatics has been emerging as a distinct disciplinary area that provides the scientific and theoretical basis for current and future practical applications of computers and automated i...

Data Mining Techniques in Medical Informatics

The advent of high-performance computing has benefited various disciplines in finding practical solutions to their problems, and our health care is no exception to this.Signal processing, image processing, and data mining tools have been de...

Medical Informatics: An Introduction

1. Information Processing in Medicine.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Overlap With Other Disciplines.- 2. Informatics.- 2.1 Structure.- 2.2 Fundamental Concepts.- 2.2.1 Message and Information.- 2.2.1.1 Events, Probability.- 2.2.1.2 SHANNON'S Info...

Medical informatics education.

Medical Informatics is a multidisciplinary field, dealing mainly with informatics and technology applications in health care. Medical Informatics is composed from a number of sub-areas such as computer based patient record (CPR), processing...

Applications of Medical Informatics in Antibiotic Therapy