Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

The History and New Trends of Medical Informatics

ABSTRACT The breakthrough of the computer and information technologies in all the segments of the society, led to the needs for the computer and information technologies. The knowledge of information technology is now part of general litera...

Medical Informatics for Medical Students: Not Just Because It's There

There has been increasing interest in the use of computers in medical education, but there has been less attention given to the rationale for the use and selection of applications. This article discusses an approach to the selection of medi...

Standards in Medical Informatics

Multi-label classification of fundus images based on graph convolutional network

Abstract Background Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the most common and serious microvascular complication in the diabetic population. Using computer-aided diagnosis from the fundus images has become a method of detecting retinal diseases, but...

Recommendations of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology for Education and Training in Medical Informatics

In the fields of health care and medicine there is an immense demand for a systematic application of methods of information processing and for the use of computers. Obviously, to that end well-trained scientists and qualified personnel must...

A Theorem for Medical Informatics

An analytical structure which defines the information domains for any medical computer project is proposed, and its use is discussed. The field of medical informatics lacks a comprehensive way to describe the limits and content of the infor...

The Renewed Promise of Medical Informatics

The promise of the field of Medical Informatics has been great and its impact has been significant. In 1999, the Yearbook editors of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) - also the authors of the present paper - sought t...

Fixed-parameter tractable sampling for RNA design with multiple target structures

Abstract Background The design of multi-stable RNA molecules has important applications in biology, medicine, and biotechnology. Synthetic design approaches profit strongly from effective in-silico methods, which substantially reduce the ne...

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) incorporated 20 years ago through the merger of three existing informatics groups: the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), the American Association for Medical Syst...

Training in medical informatics

Medical Informatics and Pediatrics

Decision support is an important area of medical informatics research. Computer-based decision-support tools facilitate diagnosis and the management of patients after a diagnosis has been established. Diagnostic decision-support tools, such...

The Questions of Medical Informatics

Each science is identified with the questions it raises with respect to its object of study. This paper discussed the formulation of the basic questions of medical informatics. From a historical point of view, it first dealt with the proble...

Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

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 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: 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...

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...

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...

Development and production of an oligonucleotide MuscleChip: use for validation of ambiguous ESTs

Abstract Background We describe the development, validation, and use of a highly redundant 120,000 oligonucleotide microarray (MuscleChip) containing 4,601 probe sets representing 1,150 known genes expressed in muscle and 2,075 EST clusters...