Academic Articles & Research Papers

Grey matter volume associations with personality functioning in a clinical cohort of female youths

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness, although its neurobiological underpinnings remain largely unknown. Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI) in adolescents can offer insights into potential biomarkers to...

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 ...

Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe

Abstract One of the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to substantially reduce the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic collisions. To this aim, European cities adopted various urban mobility policies, whic...

Toward Home‐Based Telerehabilitation for Cerebral Palsy Patients: A Qualitative Study on Feasibility, Barriers and Facilitators

ABSTRACT Background and Aim Telerehabilitation has emerged as a promising solution to address accessibility, cost‐effectiveness, and continuity of care for patients requiring long‐term rehabilitation, like cerebral palsy (CP) patients. This...

Correction: Five-year dementia prediction and decision support system based on real-world data

Corrigendum: Berberine and Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins Exhibit Synergistic Efficacy Through Regulation of PI3K-Akt Signaling Pathway in Colorectal Cancer

The Future of Medical Informatics

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: The Essentials

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...

Progress with Formalization in Medical Informatics?

The prevailing view of medical informatics as a primarily subservient discipline in health care is challenged. Developments in both general informatics and medical informatics are described to identify desirable properties of modeling langu...

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...

On the medical informatics structure

Medical Informatics as a Concept and Field-Based Medical Informatics Research: The Case of Turkey

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the position of Turkey in the field of Medical Informatics and assess the general structure of research by analyzing Medical Informatics research with bibliometric methods. Material and Methods: In this stu...

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...

Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics: Collaborations on the Road to Genomic Medicine?

In this report, the authors compare and contrast medical informatics (MI) and bioinformatics (BI) and provide a viewpoint on their complementarities and potential for collaboration in various subfields. The authors compare MI and BI along s...