Academic Articles & Research Papers

Health technology assessment

Health technology assessment (HTA) involves the systematic evaluation of healthcare technologies and the dissemination of assessment findings. Its main purpose is to provide objective information to support healthcare decisions and policy-m...

The status of medical informatics in Canadian medical schools.

Many have suggested that information technology in its various forms will continue to have an effect on all aspects of medicine, including medical education. If so, the introduction of information technology into medicine brings with it cri...

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medical Informatics

The utilization of information and communication technologies in almost all spheres of modern society has changed the social picture in significant ways while simultaneously leading to tensions with regard to traditional ethical and legal p...

Medical Informatics Is Interdisciplinary avant la Lettre

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the elements of interdisciplinary research and to analyze its contribution to (bio)medical informatics. METHOD: Commenting on 'Informatics and Medicine - From Molecules to Populations' from K. A. Kuhn et al. in this is...

Education in Medical Informatics in the Federal Republic of Germany))

The paper deals with the present situation of education at the academic level in Medical Informatics (or Medical Information Science, Electronic Data Processing applied to medicine and the health care service etc.) in the Federal Republic o...

Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

A Few Words about Medical Informatics

Medical informatics is a scientific discipline that deals with the theory and practice of information processes in medical work, where information processes mean the coverage, transmission, storage and conversion of data. In other words, me...

A current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship.

OBJECTIVE: The article offers a current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship. NARRATIVE: The authors: (1) discuss how definitions of medical informatics have changed in relation to health sciences librariansh...

Medical Informatics and Medical Education

Medical Informatics and Preparedness

The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the subsequent deliberate dissemination of anthrax have stimulated public awareness of the need in both the public health and clinical health care systems to quickly detect and respond to altered ...

Exploring barriers and enablers to implementing a digital mental health crisis risk mitigation pathway in acute paediatric care: A multi-site, exploratory mixed-methods study

Objective Children and young people (CYP) presenting in mental health crisis to acute paediatric settings represent a growing clinical and system-level challenge. These environments, primarily designed for physical healthcare, frequently la...

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 ...

Open standards in medical informatics.

Over the last few years, there has been a major effort devoted to formalizing standards for healthcare. It is vital that such standards are fully "open," whether developed by formal standards bodies or otherwise. This paper discusses the va...

Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law

Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law. Jorge L. Contreras, A. J. Cuticchia, and Gregory J. Kirsch eds., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-8390-594-4. US$230.00. - Volume 50 Issue 3...

Medical informatics: the professional challenge

LAN, WAN, PAS, PACS, and DAT—the acronyms trip off the tongue, but still most doctors ask, “What is medical informatics?” It presents an alluring vision. Take the all too familiar nightmare of a doctor in a busy outpatient clinic, reviewing...

Medical informatics: where are we in 2002?

Medical Informatics embodies two rather broad domains: “medical” and “informatics.” As described by the American Medical Informatics Association, “Medical informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective o...

Artificial neural network–based model for sleep quality prediction for frontline medical staff during major medical assistance

Background: The sleep quality of medical staff was severely affected during COVID-19, but the factors influencing the sleep quality of frontline staff involved in medical assistance remained unclear, and screening tools for their sleep qual...

Phosphorus runoff from Canadian agricultural land: A dataset for 30 experimental fields

Phosphorus (P) runoff from agricultural land plays a critical role in downstream water quality. This article summarizes P and sediment runoff data for both snowmelt and rainfall runoff from 30 arable fields in the Canadian provinces of Sask...

Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...

DeltaProt: a software toolbox for comparative genomics

Abstract Background Statistical bioinformatics is the study of biological data sets obtained by new micro-technologies by means of proper statistical methods. For a better understanding of environmental adaptations of proteins, orthologous ...