Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool

COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveilla...

Milestones in Romanian medical informatics.

The paper concerns the major activities in the field of medical informatics in Romania: education, computer technology, implementation in healthcare, role of industry, IT use in medical applications and research....

Rough Sets in Medical Informatics Applications

Potholes in the Road to Professionalism in Medical Informatics

Abstract: Heathfield and Wyatt’s article in the current issue of Methods opens a debate about the status of Medical Informatics as a discipline and as a profession. While the desire for more professionalism of Medical Informatics is laudabl...

The current situation and future of medical informatics

Medical informatics is a science dealing with the storage,retrieval and optimal use of information, data and knowledge of biomedicine so that decisions could be made and problems solved in the process of health management, clinical control ...

A Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome extranet: supporting local communication and information dissemination

Abstract Background The objective of this study was to explore the use and perceptions of a local Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Extranet and its potential to support future information and communication applications. The SARS Ext...

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 ...

Theory, Abstraction and Design in Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scientific and engineering components of Medical Informatics. A clear characterization of these components should be undertaken to categorize different areas of Medical Informatics and create a research agenda for ...

A novel and accelerated method for integrated alignment and variant calling from short and long reads

BackgroundIntegrating short- and long-read sequencing technologies has become a promising approach for achieving accurate and comprehensive genomic analysis. Although short-read sequencing (Illumina, etc.) offers high base accuracy and cost...

Structural relationships within medical informatics

Medical informatics is the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education. Although it is broadly interdisciplinary, i...

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...

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...

Medical Informatics: Concepts and Applications

Medical Informatics is a developing body of knowledge concerned with the use of information and communication technology in support of medical research, education and also for promoting health care delivery. The field focuses on the biomedi...

Argumentation approaches for explanaible AI in medical informatics

Artificial Intelligence algorithms are powerful in performing accurate predictions, but they are often considered black boxes as they do not provide any explanation about how outputs are derived from inputs or why a decision is taken. There...

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...

On the correspondence between the transcriptomic response of a compound and its effects on its targets

Abstract Better understanding the transcriptomic response produced by a compound perturbing its targets can shed light on the underlying biological processes regulated by the compound. However, establishing the relationship between the indu...

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...