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Leveraging AI to optimize vaccines supply chain and logistics in Africa: opportunities and challenges

Sulaiman Muhammad Musa, Usman Abubakar Haruna, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Mubarak Zubairu et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2025)

Examining the current situation of the vaccine supply chain in Africa, the article highlights the importance of AI technologies while outlining the prospects and problems in vaccine supply chain management in Africa. Despite the significanc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1531141

Let's Play it Safe: Ethical Considerations from Participants in a Photovoice Research Project

Karin Hannes PhD, Oksana Parylo PhD • International Journal of Qualitative Methods (2014)

The use of images and other visual data in qualitative research projects poses new ethical challenges, particularly in the context of participatory research projects that engage research participants in conducting fieldwork. Little is known...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/160940691401300112

Understanding older adults’ continuance intention toward smart locks: a socio-technical study based on the Expectation-Confirmation Model of Information Systems and Task-Technology Fit Model

Yuan Wang, Norazmawati Md Sani, Jing Cai, Pei Lu et al. • PeerJ Computer Science (2026)

Background As aging populations continue to grow, smart home technologies—such as smart locks—have become increasingly essential to support older adults’ independent living. Long-term use remains a challenge, however, with most studies focu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.3621

Lattice-based ring signcryption for consortium blockchain

Huifang Yu, Zhirui Lv • Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences (2023)

Ring signcryption with no group administrator satisfies the decentralization and blockchain anonymity. In this article, we construct new lattice-based ring signcryption scheme suitable for consortium blockchain (CB-LRSCS), in which the smar...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2023.101602

Digital Health Technologies

Carolyn Johnston • Routledge eBooks (2022)

Increasingly digital technologies are used in healthcare. This book explores eight digital health technologies, situated the context of a life span, from high-throughput genomic sequencing technologies and do-it-yourself (DIY) insulin deliv...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003220190

Human Rights and Digital Health Technologies.

Nina Sun, Kenechukwu Esom, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Joseph J Amon • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (2020)

Digital health technologies have been heralded as a critical solution to challenges and gaps in the delivery of quality health care and essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet they also present threats to privacy and c...

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With advancement in health technology comes great responsibility – Ethical and safety considerations for using digital health technology: A narrative review

Liza Grosman‐Rimon, Pete Wegier • Medicine (2024)

The accelerated adoption of digital health technologies in the last decades has raised important ethical and safety concerns. Despite the potency and usefulness of digital health technologies, addressing safety, and ethical considerations n...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000039136 PMC: 11332755

Barriers and facilitators of retention in care after cervical cancer screening: patients’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives

Judith Owokuhaisa, Eleanor Turyakira, Frank Ssedyabane, Deusdedit Tusubira et al. • BMC Women's Health (2024)

Abstract Background Cervical cancer continues to threaten women’s health, especially in low-resource settings. Regular follow-up after screening and treatment is an effective strategy for monitoring treatment outcomes. Consequently, underst...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-024-03343-1

The Emergence of Personalized Health Technology

Luke Nelson Allen, Gillian Christie • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2016)

Personalized health technology is a noisy new entrant to the health space, yet to make a significant impact on population health but seemingly teeming with potential. Devices including wearable fitness trackers and healthy-living apps are d...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5357 PMC: 4890734

Wearable Health Technology and Electronic Health Record Integration: Scoping Review and Future Directions

Catherine Dinh-Le, Rachel Chuang, Sara Kuppin Chokshi, Devin Mann • JMIR mhealth and uhealth (2019)

BACKGROUND: Due to the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and legislation on meaningful use in recent decades, health systems are increasingly interdependent on EHR capabilities, offerings, and innovations to better capture patien...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/12861 PMC: 6746089

Adoption of e-health technology by physicians: a scoping review

Chloe de Grood, Aida Raissi, Yoojin Kwon, Maria Santana • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (2016)

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this scoping review was to summarize the current literature identifying barriers and opportunities that facilitate adoption of e-health technology by physicians. DESIGN: Scoping review. SETTING: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and P...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/jmdh.s103881 PMC: 4975159

Reducing Alert Fatigue by Sharing Low-Level Alerts With Patients and Enhancing Collaborative Decision Making Using Blockchain Technology: Scoping Review and Proposed Framework (MedAlert)

Wan, Paul Kengfai, Satybaldy, Abylay, Huang, Lizhen, Holtskog, Halvor et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2020)

BackgroundClinical decision support (CDS) is a tool that helps clinicians in decision making by generating clinical alerts to supplement their previous knowledge and experience. However, CDS generates a high volume of irrelevant alerts, res...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/22013

Deep learning-based multimodal data fusion in bone tumor management: Advances in clinical decision support

Tongtong Huo, Wei Wu, Xiaoliang Chen, Mingdi Xue et al. • Intelligent Oncology (2025)

Bone tumors (BTs)—including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma—are rare but biologically complex malignancies characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in anatomical location, histological subtype, and molecular alterations. Re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.intonc.2025.06.005

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Saira Naim Haque, Carsten S. Østerlund, Madhu C Reddy • Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2010)

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...

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Secondary research use of personal medical data: patient attitudes towards data donation

Gesine Richter, Christoph Borzikowsky, Bimba Franziska Hoyer, Matthias Laudes et al. • BMC Medical Ethics (2021)

Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted once more the great need for comprehensive access to, and uncomplicated use of, pre-existing patient data for medical research. Enabling secondary research-use of patient-data is a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12910-021-00728-x

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

Faridokht Salahshoori, Majid Jangi, Ebrahim Sadeghi‐demneh, Farhad Fatehi et al. • Health Science Reports (2025)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.71131