Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Cornerstones of Medical Informatics

The changes in the health care system over the next decade are goint to make the last 20 years seem like good old days of relative stability. We will continue to see new drugs, new devices, and new techniques; however, the true megachanges ...

Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care.

Shortliffe's long involvement with the field now called medical informatics has provided him with the background necessary to pro- duce a book such as this one.His many qualifications include the following: he is a professor of med- icine a...

Medical Informatics

Description Logics and related formalisms are being applied in at least five applications in medical informatics – terminology, intelligent user interfaces, decision support and semantic indexing, language technology, and systems integratio...

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...

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...

Identifying elemental genomic track types and representing them uniformly

Abstract Background With the recent advances and availability of various high-throughput sequencing technologies, data on many molecular aspects, such as gene regulation, chromatin dynamics, and the three-dimensional organization of DNA, ar...

Sex-specific frontal-striatal connectivity differences among adolescents with externalizing disorders

Background: Sex-specific neurobiological underpinnings of impulsivity in youth with externalizing disorders have not been well studied. The only report of functional connectivity (FC) findings in this area demonstrated sex differences in fr...

A Collaborative Approach to Improving Breast Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Through Multicomponent Interventions and Process Improvements: The Links to Care Community Grants Project study protocol and baseline findings

Background: The Links to Care Community Grants Project was developed to improve breast cancer outcomes by increasing access to appropriate follow-up care, improving processes for care transitions, and enhancing care coordination between com...

Medical Imaging Informatics and Medical Informatics: Opportunities and Constraints

OBJECTIVES: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of recent excellent papers on medical informatics research (http://www.yearbook.uni-h...

Case-based medical informatics

BACKGROUND: The "applied" nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level overview of the scientific endeavor. We introduce the knowledge spectrum and four ...

Publisher Correction: Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes

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

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on international recommendations in health informatics/medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this fi...

i-MoMCARE: AI-enabled mobile app for maternal and child health care in Cambodia – a pilot implementation and evaluation study

Objectives In Cambodia, village health support groups (VHSGs) are central to maternal and child health (MCH) service delivery, yet maternal mortality remains high with regional disparities. Although digital health solutions show promise, th...

German Medical Informatics Initiative

This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on the German Medical Informatics Initiative. The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) was launched within the scope of the German Federal Ministry of Education a...

Handbook of Medical Informatics

Data Processing.- Database Management.- Telecommunication, Networking, and Integration.- Coding and Classification.- The Patient Record.- Biosignal Analysis.- Medical Imaging.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Primary Care.- Clinical Departm...

Perspectives for Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVES: Even though today most university hospitals have already implemented commercial hospital information systems and started to build up comprehensive electronic medical records, reuse of such data for data warehousing and research ...

Medical informatics

Description Logics and related formalisms are being applied in at least five applications in medical informatics - terminology, intelligent user interfaces, decision support and indexing, technology, and systems integration. Important issue...

Medical Informatics

Information management constitutes a major activity of the health care professional. Currently, a number of forces are focusing attention on this function. After many years of development of information systems to support the infrastructure...

Rapid review of the ideal clinic realisation and maintenance programme among primary healthcare providers in the Gauteng Province, South Africa

Background The ideal clinic realisation and maintenance (ICRM) programme in South Africa aims to elevate primary healthcare clinic (PHC) service quality in preparation for the National Health Insurance rollout. This study investigated ICRM ...

¿Cómo es la cirugía cardiaca neonatal en un centro terciario en México?

Resumen: Introducción y objetivos: México posee instituciones públicas y privadas para atender a 120 millones de habitantes. Nuestro hospital pediátrico es una institución pública del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Presentamos nuest...