Academic Articles & Research Papers

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...

The Reconnecting the Hand and Arm with Brain (ReHAB) Commentary on “An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels”

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces are a promising technology for allowing people with chronic and severe neurological disorders that resulted in loss of function to potentially regain those functions through neuroprosthetic devices. Th...

Identifying Applied Aspects, Medical Fields, and Technological Trends in Developing Future Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Telemedicine

Introduction: Parallel with the growth of technologies, which affect the telemedicine, timely identification of telemedicine entrepreneurial opportunities seems to be necessary for the product development. This study aimed to identify appli...

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...

Effectiveness and Related Factors of Narrative Messages in Correcting Health-Related Misinformation: Protocol for a Systematic Review

BackgroundThe internet and social media have become essential sources of health information for patients and citizens; however, they often disseminate misinformation that lacks scientific evidence. Health-related misinformation can undermin...

Medical Informatics and Pediatrics-Reply

We, too, are pleased by the contributions that theArchiveshas made to the medical informatics literature. It is noteworthy that from a historical perspective, the American Journal of Diseases of Children had a reputation for publishing land...

Examining Rural and Urban Sentiment Difference in COVID-19–Related Topics on Twitter: Word Embedding–Based Retrospective Study

BackgroundBy the end of 2022, more than 100 million people were infected with COVID-19 in the United States, and the cumulative death rate in rural areas (383.5/100,000) was much higher than in urban areas (280.1/100,000). As the pandemic s...

Correction: Potential Correlates of Internet Gaming Disorder Among Indonesian Medical Students: Cross-sectional Study

Medical informaticsʼ promised land

A decade ago, a "promised land" was envisioned in which the true potential of medical informatics would be realized. A decade later, it is time to assess academic medicine's progress in its journey into this medical informatics promised lan...

The deep learning applications in IoT-based bio- and medical informatics: a systematic literature review

Abstract Nowadays, machine learning (ML) has attained a high level of achievement in many contexts. Considering the significance of ML in medical and bioinformatics owing to its accuracy, many investigators discussed multiple solutions for ...

The role of medical informatics in the management of medical information

With progress in information and communication technology, medical information has been converted to digital formats and stored and managed using computer systems. The construction, management, and operation of medical information systems a...

[Medical informatics--today and tomorrow].

The status of medical informatics, a comparatively new biomedical discipline beginning to develop in the second half of the 20th century, is described at the transition into the 21st century. The appearance of new information and communicat...

eHealth for Addressing Balance Disorders in the Elderly: Systematic Review

BackgroundThe population is aging on a global scale, triggering vulnerability for chronic multimorbidity, balance disorders, and falls. Falls with injuries are the main cause of accidental death in the elderly population, representing a rel...

Medical Informatics and eHealth

Medical Informatics comprises the theoretical and practical aspects of information processing and communication, based on knowledge and experience derived from processes in medicine and healthcare. The processing takes place within computer...

A Focus on Simulation in Medical Informatics

This special issue of JAMIA addresses simulation, a methodology that holds great promise for the advancement of information technology in health care. Simulation has been termed a third domain, complementing both natural language and mathem...

Role of the Internet in Solving the Last Mile Problem in Medicine

Internet-augmented medicine has a strong role to play in ensuring that all populations benefit equally from discoveries in the medical sciences. Yet, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected from 1999 to 2014 sugge...

A Framework for Femtech: Guiding Principles for Developing Digital Reproductive Health Tools in the United States

The United States has abysmal reproductive health indices that, in part, reflect stark inequities experienced by people of color and those with preexisting medical conditions. The growth of “femtech,” or technology-based solutions to women’...

Beyond the Superhighway: Exploiting the Internet with Medical Informatics

As in other areas of society, the Internet and the World Wide Web are becoming important topics in medical informatics. This is evident from the recent American Medical Informatics Association's 1996 Annual Fall Symposium, where the theme w...

Medical informatics research trend analysis: A text mining approach

The objective of this research is to identify major subject areas of medical informatics and explore the time-variant changes therein. As such it can inform the field about where medical informatics research has been and where it is heading...

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 ...