Academic Articles & Research Papers

Medical Informatics and Pediatrics

Decision support is an important area of medical informatics research. Computer-based decision-support tools facilitate diagnosis and the management of patients after a diagnosis has been established. Diagnostic decision-support tools, such...

An updated database of human maximum skin fluxes and epidermal permeability coefficients for drugs, xenobiotics, and other solutes applied as aqueous solutions

The dataset represented in this article is referred to by the review article entitled “Topical drug delivery: history, percutaneous absorption, and product development” (MS Roberts et al., 2021) [1]. The dataset contains maximal flux (Jmax)...

Adherence to Blended or Face-to-Face Smoking Cessation Treatment and Predictors of Adherence: Randomized Controlled Trial

BackgroundBlended face-to-face and web-based treatment is a promising way to deliver smoking cessation treatment. Since adherence has been shown to be an indicator of treatment acceptability and a determinant for effectiveness, we explored ...

Introduction to Medical Informatics

What is medical informatics? In the summer of 2004 I was invited to lecture at Dartmouth. Dr. Rosen, my host, asked me if I could address my interpretation of medical informatics during my lecture. This presentation made me review and refle...

Growing functional modules from a seed protein via integration of protein interaction and gene expression data

Abstract Background Nowadays modern biology aims at unravelling the strands of complex biological structures such as the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. A key concept in the organization of PPI networks is the existence of dense...

Performance Evaluation Methods and Suggestions for High-Voltage Generator and Tube of DR System

In the design of DR systems, high-voltage generators and X-ray tubes are two key components whose performance directly affects the system's exposure capabilities. This article first explains why it is necessary to conduct an in-depth evalua...

An Introduction to Medical Informatics

This HIBBS presentation is an introduction to the domain of medical informatics. It explains that medical informatics is an applied field of study that is continuously evolving. The presentation takes the audience through the various iterat...

Exploring the determinants of patients’ continuance intentions in online health communities from the network effects perspective

Objectives: Online health communities (OHCs) facilitate patient-physician interaction and the adoption of online health services. However, few studies explored the impact of network effects on patients’ continuance intentions in OHCs. This ...

Science and Practice: A Case for Medical Informatics as a Local Science of Design

Because scientific research is guided by concerns for uncovering "fundamental truths," its time frame differs from that of design, development, and practice, which are driven by immediate needs for practical solutions. In medicine, however,...

Neural substrates of motor and cognitive dysfunctions in SCA2 patients: A network based statistics analysis

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive cerebellar syndrome, which can be isolated or associated with extracerebellar signs. It has been shown that patients affe...

Medical Informatics, e-Health

Medical Informatics

It is claimed that seeds of ‘medical informatics’ were sown in 1960s.From this time until the 1990s experts have described the discipline as emerging. This perennial state of advancement can be dedicated to the pioneers of medical informati...

Karinių pratybų poveikis profesionalių karių miego kokybei

Tinkama miego trukmė ir kokybė yra būtini optimaliai psichinei ir fizinei sveikatai. Karinės profesijos susiduria su unikaliais iššūkiais, tokiais kaip 36 valandų darbo pamainos, fiziškai alinantis darbas ir situacijos, dėl kurių galima sus...

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...

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...

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...

Using the consolidated framework for implementation research to guide a pilot of implementing an institution level patient informed consent process for clinical research at an outpatient setting

Abstract Background In Singapore, research teams seek informed patient consent on an ad hoc basis for specific clinical studies and there is typically a role separation between operational and research staff. With the enactment of the Human...

Association of maternal metabolic risk factors with offspring body mass index (BMI) trajectories in early childhood: a retrospective cohort study

Objective This study aimed to identify body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories from birth to 24 months of age and examine the independent and additive effects of four maternal metabolic risk factors, namely prepregnancy BMI, the rate of g...

Preparedness of health facilities in managing hypertension & diabetes mellitus in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: a cross sectional study

Abstract Background Hypertension and Diabetes mellitus are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases that cause 17 million deaths globally. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if hypertensive and diabetic patients had their blood ...

Abnormal cervical cancer screening results among US Veteran and non-Veteran participants in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)

Female Veterans report cervical cancer risk factors at higher rates than non-Veterans. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we tested whether Veterans with a recent cervical cancer screening test were more likely tha...