Academic Articles & Research Papers

Medical informatics in the new millennium.

In a period of social transformation, we must reinvent health care. For guidance, we can look to the evolving discipline of medical informatics and to the patterns of investment in the practice arena. A top ranked application need, the comp...

Milestones in Romanian medical informatics.

The paper concerns the major activities in the field of medical informatics in Romania: education, computer technology, implementation in healthcare, role of industry, IT use in medical applications and research....

Software Engineering Education in Medical Informatics

Requirements and approaches of Software Engineering education in the field of Medical Informatics are described with respect to the impact of (1) experiences characterizing the "software misery", (2) status and tendencies in software method...

Medical informatics across Europe: Analysis of medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries. METHODS: Medical Subject Heading term "medical informatics" was used to identify all relevant articles published in 1998-2007 and indexed in the ...

Quantum computing in medical informatics

In an era of exponential technological advancements, the integration of quantum computing (QC) and medical informatics emerges as a captivating frontier, promising to unlock a new realm of possibilities for healthcare. QC, harnessing the pr...

Optimal@NRW: optimized acute care of nursing home residents using an intersectoral telemedical cooperation network — study protocol for a stepped-wedge trial

Abstract Background Increasing life expectancy is associated with a growing number of people living in nursing homes, while the availability of outpatient medical care, especially from family doctors, is stagnating in this sector. Consequen...

Caring for Computers: The Hidden Work of Clinical Nurses during the Introduction of Health Information Systems in a Teaching Hospital in Taiwan

Implementing health information systems for enhancing patient care and management occurs worldwide. Discovering how nurses, as important system end-users, experience technology-reliant clinical practice involved focus groups (n = 25) and in...

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Similar to iSchools, healthcare is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses heterogeneous environments (e.g., hospitals, clinics, home) and perspectives. However, medical informatics research focuses mainly on technical solutions to narr...

Medical Informatics and Opportunity for Anesthesiologists.

This is the fifth year that we are organizing the anesthesia symposium/debate during the annual meeting of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists. The member of the symposium consists a team from China lead by Dr. Buwei Yu, the immediate ...

[Current issues of medical informatics].

Due to the modern high standards of information technologies it is only natural to promote our medical care and to ensure a new quality of clinical services. Information technologies should be introduced into the medical field with due resp...

Fifty years in medical informatics.

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

Dopamine transporter binding in symptomatic controls and healthy volunteers: Considerations for neuroimaging trials

Objective: To evaluate possible differences between brain dopamine transporter (DAT) binding in a group of symptomatic parkinsonism patients without dopaminergic degeneration and healthy individuals. Background: Dopaminergic neuroimaging st...

Longitudinal analysis of white matter and cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis

Purpose: The goals of this study were to assess the performance of a novel lesion segmentation tool for longitudinal analyses, as well as to validate the generated lesion progression map between two time points using conventional and non-co...

Artificial intelligence–aided diagnosis model for acute respiratory distress syndrome combining clinical data and chest radiographs

Objective The aim of this study was to develop an artificial intelligence–based model to detect the presence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) using clinical data and chest X-ray (CXR) data. Method The transfer learning method w...

Application Strategies for Artificial Intelligence–based Clinical Decision Support System: From the Simulation to the Real-World

Artificial intelligence-driven anthropometric assessment for young children: evaluating the accuracy and practicality of a digital image-based length and weight prediction tool

Background Monitoring early childhood growth is vital, as growth faltering could indicate nutritional or health issues requiring prompt intervention. Our study’s aim was to assess the performance of a length-weight artificial intelligence (...

Remote Patient Monitoring System for Polypathological Older Adults at High Risk for Hospitalization: Retrospective Cohort Study

Abstract BackgroundHealth care systems are increasingly facing challenges posed by the aging of populations. In particular, hospitalization, both initial and subsequent, is often observed among older adult patients. However, res...

Collaboration in times of COVID-19: the urgent need for open-data sharing in Latin America

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol

BackgroundEarly intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority yout...

A career in medical informatics

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli explains how to have a career in medical informatics1 If you want to understand why I love technology, take a look at my hearing aid. Just before starting my house job, my nightmare scenario was of being deafened by the...