Academic Articles & Research Papers

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

Summary Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics /medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course t...

Medical informatics

If you have not yet heard of medical informatics then expect to do so repeatedly in the future. As medical knowledge continues to expand rapidly, as the demands for more efficient coordination of patient data become paramount, and as the pr...

An author co-citation analysis of medical informatics.

OBJECTIVE: This study presents the results of an author co-citation analysis of the interdisciplinary field of medical informatics. METHODS: An author co-citation analysis was conducted for the years 1994 to 1998, using the fifty most-cited...

Understanding Public Perceptions of Lung Cancer in China: Infodemiology Study of Baidu Index and Weibo Posts

Abstract BackgroundIn China, lung cancer remains a major public health concern and accounts for a substantial proportion of cancer-related deaths nationwide. However, limited research has examined public perceptions of lung canc...

Publisher Correction: Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes

Empowering Health Care Actors to Contribute to the Implementation of Health Data Integration Platforms: Retrospective of the medEmotion Project

Health data integration platforms are vital to drive collaborative, interdisciplinary medical research projects. Developing such a platform requires input from different stakeholders. Managing these stakeholders and steering platform develo...

Recent Advances: Medical informatics

Recent advances in medical informatics* The application of information and com- munication technologies in health care should be problem rather than technology driven * The use of existing communication tech- nologies such as mobile telepho...

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...

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...

Medical Informatics

Information management constitutes a major activity of the health care professional. Currently, a number of forces are focusing attention on this function. After many years of development of information systems to support the infrastructure...

Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceived Risks Towards COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact of Risk Communication Messages on Healthcare Workers in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz Mushi,1 Yara Yassin,1 Anas Khan,1,2 Saber Yezli,1 Yasir Almuzaini1 1The Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud Univer...

Sakha Language in a Northern Industrial Monotown: Linguistic Distribution in Speech Repertoire of Sakha People

This study explores the functioning of the Yakut language in the conditions of the northern industrial monotown Mirny (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)). The study identifies the features of linguistic distribution in the speech repertoire of et...

Effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system in improving the management of childhood illness in primary care in rural Nigeria: an observational study

Objectives To evaluate the impact of ALgorithm for the MANAgement of CHildhood illness (‘ALMANACH’), a digital clinical decision support system (CDSS) based on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, on health and quality of care ou...

Personalized insights into urinary tract infection management: A text mining analysis of online consultation data

Objectives Urinary tract infections (UTIs) frequently affect individuals of all ages, necessitating antibiotic treatment and medical care, which can impair quality of life and cause psychological strain. Online Health Consultation (OHC) pla...

Policy Recommendations for Information Prescribing to Heart Failure Patients to Reduce Readmissions, Mortality, and Costs

Introduction: Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and mortality, with frequent readmissions mainly due to poor self-care knowledge and low medication adherence. These readmissions increase healthcare costs and reduce patient...

Public–private partnership in pipelining science of acute care ecosystem: Insights from Taiwan's Presidential Hackathon

Abstract Introduction The acute care system faced significant challenges in managing healthcare emergencies due to a lack of coordination between emergency services and logistical support. This disorganization undermined collaboration and r...

Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elements upon global DNA demethylation in human neural progenitors

DNA methylation plays an important role in silencing transposable elements. Here the authors find that loss of DNMT1 and DNA methylation leads to transcriptional activation and chromatin remodelling of evolutionarily young—hominoid-specific...

Friends with Social Benefits: Host-Microbe Interactions as a Driver of Brain Evolution and Development?

The tight association of the human body with trillions of colonizing microbes that we observe today is the result of a long evolutionary history. Only very recently have we started to understand how this symbiosis also affects brain functio...

Autistic disorders and medical biotechnology.

chiefly described by three main deficits: 1) deviant communication, 2) impaired reciprocal social interaction, and 3) lim-ited, repetitive and stereotypic patterns of behaviors or interests 1. The world-wide prevalence of ADs is estimated t...

The Rising Era of “Immunoporosis”: Role of Immune System in the Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis

Rupesh K Srivastava, Leena Sapra Immunoporosis Lab, Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, 110029, IndiaCorrespondence: Rupesh K Srivastava, Tel +91 11-26593548, Email rupesh_srivastava13@ya...