Academic Articles & Research Papers

Exploring the determinants of patients’ continuance intentions in online health communities from the network effects perspective

Objectives: Online health communities (OHCs) facilitate patient-physician interaction and the adoption of online health services. However, few studies explored the impact of network effects on patients’ continuance intentions in OHCs. This ...

Trends in Telemedicine Use for Addiction Treatment

Methods: A project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine services among purchasers of addiction treatment in five states and one county. The project assessed purchasers’ interest in and perceive...

Infodemiological data concerning silicosis in the USA in the period 2004–2010 correlating with real-world statistical data

This article reports data concerning silicosis-related web-activities using Google Trends (GT) capturing the Internet behavior in the USA for the period 2004–2010. GT-generated data were then compared with the most recent available epidemio...

Konferenssit

Patient-reported treatment outcomes and safety of direct-to-consumer teledermatology for finasteride treatment in male androgenetic alopecia: A cross-sectional study

Objective The use of direct-to-consumer (DTC) teledermatology platforms has increased, particularly for androgenetic alopecia (AGA). However, little is known about the efficacy and safety of these platforms. This study aimed to investigate ...

Data on genotypic distribution and linkage disequilibrium of several ANRIL polymorphisms in hemodialysis patients

A long non-coding RNA called ANRIL located on chromosome 9p21.3 has been identified as a novel genetic factor associated with cardiovascular disease. Investigation of several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of Noncoding Antisense RNA...

Medical Informatics

Since our review last year,13 applications of medical informatics have seen substantial progress: computer-based patient records,2telemedicine,3and electronic biomedical publishing.4The evidence lies not only in technical advances but also ...

Comparative Effectiveness Research and Medical Informatics

Medical informatics

During last few decades, medical experts have collaborate with the engineers to develop advanced techniques and tools for improving the significances of medical diagnosing techniques. Especially, with the development of high-resolution imag...

Lecture notes in medical informatics

Medical informatics: reasoning methods

Medical informatics : the essentials

What is Medical Informatics? Why Bother with Medical Informatics? Essential Descriptions and Definitions Getting Started - the basic steps Basic Network Usage Informatics in Education The Nature, Structure and Value of Medical Information I...

Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics

Summary Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics /medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course t...

A review of medical education and medical informatics

Physicians have considerable difficulty collecting and interpreting information from patients, dealing with the uncertainties associated with diagnosing and treating their patients, communicating precisely with one another, keeping up to da...

Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics Europe '99

This volume seeks to reflect the state of the art on medical informatics. It presents ideas that will guide the process of medical informatics. Topics in the book include: information systems in health care and medicine; telemedicine and te...

Standardization in Medical Informatics

This article stresses the importance of standardization in the domain of Health and Medical Informatics, and Telematics. It gives an overview of the current standing of the activities of CEN TC 251 (European Standardization Committee, Techn...

Hypertension and medical informatics.

BACKGROUND: Only about 27% of Americans with hypertension have their disease under control. Hypertension in the African-American population has a higher prevalence (32%) and is less likely to be treated or controlled compared with that in t...

The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature

OBJECTIVE: Medical informatics is an emergent interdisciplinary field described as drawing upon and contributing to both the health sciences and information sciences. The authors elucidate the disciplinary nature and internal structure of t...

Medical informatics

If you have not yet heard of medical informatics then expect to do so repeatedly in the future. As medical knowledge continues to expand rapidly, as the demands for more efficient coordination of patient data become paramount, and as the pr...