Academic Articles & Research Papers

Medical informatics and information

Medical informatics has now been in existence for approximately 40 years, and it has been rapidly growing in the last decade. Despite major advantages in the science and technology of health care, it seems that the medical informatics disci...

Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics

In the last 50 years, computational applications have been developed to aid clinicians and researchers alike in the broad field of Biomedicine. Adopted early in the evolution of the field, the term medical informatics has been applied to th...

Medical Informatics

This column reports the results of a survey conducted of medical librarian participants in medical informatics training at the University of Pittsburgh. This small study was undertaken in order to identify issues in training different kinds...

Medical informatics--an interdisciplinary approach.

Medical informatics is the first science that has incorporated all traditional medical disciplines. That progress is possible due to fast development of new technologies, particularly in informatics, as well as due to common needs of all me...

Medical Informatics: Searching for Underlying Components

OBJECTIVE: To discuss unifying principles that can provide a theory for the diverse aspects of work in medical informatics. If medical informatics is to have academic credibility, it must articulate a clear theory that is distinct from that...

Antecedents of the People and Organizational Aspects of Medical Informatics: Review of the Literature

People and organizational issues are critical in both implementing medical informatics systems and in dealing with the altered organizations that new systems often create. The people and organizational issues area--like medical informatics ...

Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care

The formidable title of this well-written textbook belies its readability and usefulness. While the termsinformaticsandcomputerscan turn all but the computer literate away in disinterest or even fear, this book is useful to many, computerop...

Medical informatics in context

Abstract Medical informatics may be defined as “the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education.” As such, it has b...

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...

Subjective wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from three population groups in Colombia

This paper presents three data sets about the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and subjective wellbeing in Colombia for three population subgroups: adults (+18 years old), college students, and informal workers. The data w...

Standardization In Medical Informatics

The article deals with issues related to the standardization of the field of medical informatics. Basic definitions, an overview of specific standards are given, and promising directions of development in this area are outlined. Almost all ...

Medical Informatics – Fiction or Reality?

* Key-note address presented during ›Medical Informatics Berlin 79‹, revised version; original version published in: Barber, B., Grémy, F., Überla, K., Wagner, G. (Eds): Medical Informatics Berlin 1979 (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg: 1979), 9...

Medical informatics: Market for IS/IT

Abstract Following on the lead from earlier pilot studies, the present work uses co‐occurrence analysis of INSPEC classification codes and thesaurus terms assigned to Medical Informatics journal articles and proceedings papers to reveal a m...

History of Medical Informatics: Fifty Years in Medical Informatics

Summary An overview of personal experiences in medical informatics based on Dr. Morris Collen’s 50 years of research in the field. A personal reminiscence and historical overview, focusing on the first two decades of medical informatics, wh...

[Medical informatics].

Medical informatics is the discipline concerned with information and information streams in health care. The development of information technology has been intensified in recent years and is now influencing the international development wit...

Medical Informatics

Information technology has been revolutionizing the everyday life of the common man, while medical science has been making rapid strides in understanding disease mechanisms, developing diagnostic techniques and effecting successful treatmen...

A STUDY ON MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Medical informatics, a rapidly evolving field, plays a pivotal role in improving healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and the overall healthcare system. This abstract provides an overview of the key concepts, applications, and impacts of ...

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...

From BIG Data Center to China National Center for Bioinformation

Contribution of EFMI to development of medical informatics. European Federation for Medical Informatics.

The European Federation for Medical Informatics has been established in 1976. At the MIE 96 it has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its existence. During these 20 years the number of number of national societies who became a member has be...