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Future developments of medical informatics from the viewpoint of networked clinical research. Interoperability and integrationC Ohmann
Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, Heinrich Heine University, Moorenstr 5, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
Methods Inf Med 48:45-54. 2009..It is the objective of our paper to give an overview of developments, indicate problem areas and to specify future requirements...
The law of attritionGunther Eysenbach
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, 190 Elizabeth Street, Toronto ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
J Med Internet Res 7:e11. 2005..A "run-in and withdrawal" trial design is suggested as a methodological innovation for Internet-based trials with a high number of initial dropouts/nonusers and a stable group of hardcore users...- Empirical studies assessing the quality of health information for consumers on the world wide web: a systematic reviewGunther Eysenbach
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto General Hospital, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4
JAMA 287:2691-700. 2002..The quality of consumer health information on the World Wide Web is an important issue for medicine, but to date no systematic and comprehensive synthesis of the methods and evidence has been performed... - Definition of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: a systematic reviewTom H Van De Belt
Regional Emergency Healthcare Network, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
J Med Internet Res 12:e18. 2010..When new "Web 2.0" technologies are used in health care, the terms "Health 2.0" or "Medicine 2.0" may be used... - What is eHealth (3): a systematic review of published definitionsHans Oh
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
J Med Internet Res 7:e1. 2005..This compendium of proposed definitions may improve communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term... - Challenges and opportunities of eHealth researchDavid K Ahern
Health e Technologies Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S75-82. 2007..A brief historical perspective provides context for the subsequent appraisal of the current state of eHealth research. Next, emerging evidence pointing to the growing interest and investment in eHealth research is presented... - eHealth research and healthcare delivery beyond intervention effectivenessSusan J Curry
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S127-30. 2007 - eHealth evaluation and dissemination researchRussell E Glasgow
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S119-26. 2007..These evaluations should address key dissemination issues, such as appeal, use, and robustness of eHealth programs across different subgroups, settings, conditions, outcomes, and time... - Healthy living with persuasive technologies: framework, issues, and challengesSamir Chatterjee
Network Convergence Laboratory, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:171-8. 2009..The article's goal is to provide greater understanding by addressing the challenges that lie ahead for all key stakeholders that design and/or use persuasive technologies in health care... - Design and evaluation in eHealth: challenges and implications for an interdisciplinary fieldClaudia Pagliari
Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
J Med Internet Res 9:e15. 2007..It also has policy implications for agencies commissioning research and development in this area... 
A PACS maturity model: a systematic meta-analytic review on maturation and evolvability of PACS in the hospital enterpriseRogier van de Wetering
Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P O Box 80 089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Int J Med Inform 78:127-40. 2009..With PACS and medical imaging technology maturing, the importance of organizational maturity and effective deployment of PACS in the hospital enterprise are becoming significant...- Perspectives for medical informatics. Reusing the electronic medical record for clinical researchH U Prokosch
Chair of Medical Informatics, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Krankenhausstr 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Methods Inf Med 48:38-44. 2009.... - Review of imaging solutions for integrated quantitative immunohistochemistry in the Pathology daily practiceMarcial Garcia Rojo
Pathology Department, Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain
Folia Histochem Cytobiol 47:349-54. 2009..Automated quantitative tissue microarrays (TMA) analysis is essential to provide high-throughput analysis. Medical informatics standards in images (DICOM) and workflow (IHE) under development will foster the use of image analysis in .. - Adopting electronic medical records in primary care: lessons learned from health information systems implementation experience in seven countriesD A Ludwick
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Int J Med Inform 78:22-31. 2009..Very little information was available about privacy and liability... - Information needs and visitors' experience of an Internet expert forum on infertilityWolfgang Himmel
Department of General Practice, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
J Med Internet Res 7:e20. 2005.... - Health IT success and failure: recommendations from literature and an AMIA workshopBonnie Kaplan
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:291-9. 2009.... - Critical issues in eHealth researchAudie A Atienza
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S71-4. 2007 - What e-Health can offerS Yunkap Kwankam
E-Health, Knowledge Management and Sharing Department, Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 82:800-2. 2004 - Developing a web-based information resource for palliative care: an action-research inspired approachAnnette F Street
Clinical School of Nursing, La Trobe University Austin Health, Lv 4 Austin Tower, Heidelberg VIC 3084, Australia
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 7:26. 2007..This paper describes the benefits and challenges of a collaborative approach involving users and experts that informed the first stage of the development of a palliative care website 1... - A randomized effectiveness trial of a clinical informatics consult service: impact on evidence-based decision-making and knowledge implementationShelagh A Mulvaney
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, School of Nursing, 461 21 Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:203-11. 2008..To determine the effectiveness of providing synthesized research evidence to inform patient care practices via an evidence based informatics program, the Clinical Informatics Consult Service (CICS)... - Participatory design of a text message scheduling system to support young people with diabetesAnnalu Waller
School of Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
Health Informatics J 12:304-18. 2006..The result was a reliable, functional, acceptable and usable system that was effectively implemented in its intended setting... - Commonly cited website quality criteria are not effective at identifying inaccurate online information about breast cancerElmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Cancer 112:1206-13. 2008..However, the effectiveness of these tools is unknown. The authors determined whether existing quality criteria can identify inaccurate breast cancer information online... - Effectiveness of a Web-based intervention aimed at healthy dietary and physical activity behavior: a randomized controlled trial about users and usageSaskia M Kelders
Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
J Med Internet Res 13:e32. 2011..However, the pathways of these changes are not clear. In addition, nonusage poses a threat to these interventions. Little is known of characteristics of participants that predict usage... - Experience and attitudes towards information technology among first-year medical students in Denmark: longitudinal questionnaire surveyJens Dørup
Section for Health Informatics, Institute of Biostatistics, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Blvd 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
J Med Internet Res 6:e10. 2004.... - The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in medical informaticsAnthony D Harris
Division of Healthcare Outcomes Research, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 100 N Greene Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:16-23. 2006..study designs, often described as nonrandomized, pre-post intervention studies, are common in the medical informatics literature... - Biomedical informatics and translational medicineIndra Neil Sarkar
Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Ave, Given Courtyard N309, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
J Transl Med 8:22. 2010..Based on contributions and advancements in each of these topic areas, the article proposes that biomedical informatics practitioners ("biomedical informaticians") can be essential members of translational medicine teams... - What are the barriers to residents' practicing evidence-based medicine? A systematic reviewNynke van Dijk
Department of General Practice Family Medicine, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acad Med 85:1163-70. 2010..The purpose of this study, therefore, was to systematically appraise and summarize the literature on the barriers that residents experience in the application of EBM in daily practice... - Evaluating informatics applications--clinical decision support systems literature reviewB Kaplan
Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Int J Med Inform 64:15-37. 2001..Consequently, there is a lack of information useful for understanding why CDSSs may or may not be effective, resulting in making less informed decisions about these technologies and, by extension, other medical informatics applications. - Textpresso: an ontology-based information retrieval and extraction system for biological literatureHans Michael Muller
Division of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
PLoS Biol 2:e309. 2004..Textpresso can be accessed at http://www.textpresso.org or via WormBase at http://www.wormbase.org... - Health information on the Internet: accessibility, quality, and readability in English and SpanishG K Berland
RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA, USA
JAMA 285:2612-21. 2001..Despite the substantial amount of health-related information available on the Internet, little is known about the accessibility, quality, and reading grade level of that health information... - Effectiveness of IT-based diabetes management interventions: a review of the literatureBeth M Costa
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, Geelong, 3220 Victoria, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 10:72. 2009.... - Missing data approaches in eHealth research: simulation study and a tutorial for nonmathematically inclined researchersMatthijs Blankers
Arkin Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Med Internet Res 12:e54. 2010..Missing data is a common nuisance in eHealth research: it is hard to prevent and may invalidate research findings... - Answers to questions posed during daily patient care are more likely to be answered by UpToDate than PubMedArjen Hoogendam
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
J Med Internet Res 10:e29. 2008..UpToDate and PubMed are popular sources for medical information. Data regarding the efficiency of PubMed and UpToDate in daily medical care are lacking... - The use of routinely collected computer data for research in primary care: opportunities and challengesSimon de Lusignan
Primary Care Informatics, Division of Community Health Sciences, St George s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Fam Pract 23:253-63. 2006..g. child protection). (5) Achieving appropriate levels of information security, confidentiality, and privacy... - MedCIRCLE: collaboration for Internet rating, certification, labelling and evaluation of health information on the World-Wide-WebM A Mayer
, WMA, Official Medical Association of Barcelona, Spain
Stud Health Technol Inform 95:667-72. 2003..Other aims include refinement and expansion of HIDDEL, to become a standard vocabulary and interchange format for self- and third-party ratings of health information... - Medical informatics: past, present, futureReinhold Haux
Peter L Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Muehlenpfordtstr 23, D 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Int J Med Inform 79:599-610. 2010To reflect about medical informatics as a discipline. To suggest significant future research directions with the purpose of stimulating further discussion. - The future of medical informatics. Some perspectives of intra- and inter-institutional information systemsA Winter
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Haertelstr 16 18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
Methods Inf Med 48:62-5. 2009Presenting the author's point of view on chances and challenges of medical informatics in research, education, and practice of information management, especially in the field of regional as well as institutional health information systems. - Theory development in health care informatics: Information and communication technology acceptance model (ICTAM) improves the explanatory and predictive power of technology acceptance modelsJi Young An
College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 122:63-7. 2006..31, df = 752); GFI = .71; RMSEA = .08; CFI = .86; NFI = .78. The results of this study provide empirical support for the continued development of ICTAM in the area of health consumers' information and communication technology acceptance... - A holistic framework to improve the uptake and impact of eHealth technologiesJulia E W C Van Gemert-Pijnen
Department of Psychology, Health and Technology Center for eHealth Research and Disease Management, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
J Med Internet Res 13:e111. 2011.... - Internet medical usage in Japan: current situation and issuesH Tatsumi
Department of Anatomy, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, 060 8556, Japan
J Med Internet Res 3:E12. 2001..The development of medical care will be promoted through patients and physicians working together in the accumulation of shared resources for good medical care information... - Disambiguation of ambiguous biomedical terms using examples generated from the UMLS MetathesaurusMark Stevenson
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
J Biomed Inform 43:762-73. 2010..The examples generated using the novel approach produce an improvement in WSD performance when combined with manually labeled examples... - Informatics united: exemplary studies combining medical informatics, neuroinformatics and bioinformaticsJ Wiemer
Intelligent Bioinformatics Systems, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Methods Inf Med 42:126-33. 2003OBJECTIVES: Medical informatics, neuroinformatics and bioinformatics provide a wide spectrum of research... - Project HealthDesign: rethinking the power and potential of personal health recordsPatricia Flatley Brennan
School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Madison, H6 241 CSC, Madison, WI 53792, USA
J Biomed Inform 43:S3-5. 2010.... - Educating medical students as competent users of health information technologies: the MSOP dataJulie J McGowan
School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 5121, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 129:1414-8. 2007..health information technologies become part of the health care environment, the need for physicians with medical informatics competencies is growing... - Informatics, evidence-based care, and research; implications for national policy: a report of an American Medical Informatics Association health policy conferenceMeryl Bloomrosen
American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:115-23. 2010..The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2008 Health Policy Conference was convened to focus and propel discussions about .. - A medical informatics distance-learning course for Latin America. Translation, implementation and evaluationP Otero
Department of Medical Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Gascon 450, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Methods Inf Med 49:310-5. 2010..is a growing need and interest worldwide for healthcare and information technology professionals trained in medical informatics. Distance learning technologies are increasingly used to deliver such education, but have mainly been .. - Implementation of health information systems in RomaniaG I Mihalas
Department of Biophysics and Medical Informatics, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eftimie Murgu Sq no 2, code 300 041, Timisoara, Romania
Methods Inf Med 45:121-4. 2006..The first part was dedicated to the analysis of a large national project, HMIS--Healthcare Management Information System, and the second to the current state of the hospital information systems and primary care systems... - Mapping the domain of medical informaticsM J Schuemie
Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr Molewaterplein 50, 3015GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Methods Inf Med 48:76-83. 2009The domain of medical informatics (MI) is not well defined. It covers a wide range of research topics. Our objective is to characterize the field of MI by means of the scientific literature in this domain. - Assessing and improving evidence based health informatics researchJeremy Wyatt
Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee, Scotland
Stud Health Technol Inform 151:435-45. 2010.... - Impact of the internet on primary care staff in GlasgowS M Wilson
Clinical Effectiveness Department, South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, Glasgow, G42 9TY
J Med Internet Res 1:E7. 1999..This provides General Practitioners (GPs) and Practice Nurses with access to the Internet and a wealth of healthcare information of varying quality... - Rating health web sites using the principles of citation analysis: a bibliometric approachL Cui
Faculty of Medical Library and Information Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, P R China
J Med Internet Res 1:E4. 1999..The identification of the current, core section of health sciences related web sites with a bibliometric method gives librarians and information scientists another approach for evaluating web sites... - Medical informatics and the science of cognitionV L Patel
Centre for Medical Education, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
J Am Med Inform Assoc 5:493-502. 1998Recent developments in medical informatics research have afforded possibilities for great advances in health care delivery... - Science and practice: a case for medical informatics as a local science of designV L Patel
Center for Medical Education, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
J Am Med Inform Assoc 5:489-92. 1998..The authors propose that medical informatics be construed as a local science of design... - The quality of evidence in health informatics: how did the quality of healthcare IT evaluation publications develop from 1982 to 2005?N F de Keizer
Department of Medical Informatics, J1b 114, Academic Medical Centre, Universiteit van Amsterdam, P O Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Med Inform 77:41-9. 2008.... - Publication bias in medical informatics evaluation research: is it an issue or not?Christof Machan
Institute for Health Information Systems, UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol, Austria
Stud Health Technol Inform 124:957-62. 2006..However, it is unclear if there is a remarkable impact of publication bias in medical informatics evaluation literature and how aware researchers are of its effect... - Utilization of information technology in medical education: a questionnaire survey of students in a Malaysian institutionM I Nurjahan
Section of Family Medicine, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur
Med J Malaysia 57:58-66. 2002..This will enhance medical students' ability to acquire, appraise, and use information in order to solve clinical and other problems quickly and efficiently in the course of their studies, and more importantly when they graduate... - Visibility of medical informatics regarding bibliometric indices and databasesCord Spreckelsen
Institute for Medical Informatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 11:24. 2011..This study examines the effects of the new indices on the visibility of Medical Informatics. - Use of an internet "viral" marketing software platform in health promotionPierre Gosselin
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
J Med Internet Res 10:e47. 2008.... - Case-based medical informaticsStefan V Pantazi
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 4:19. 2004..We outline the fundamental differences between Medical Informatics and theoretical sciences and propose that Medical Informatics research should advance individual knowledge .. - Vision and challenges of Evidence-Based Health Informatics: a case study of a CPOE meta-analysisElske Ammenwerth
Institute for Health Information Systems, Department of Public Health, Information Systems and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Eduard Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, A 6060 Hall in Tyrol, Austria
Int J Med Inform 79:e83-8. 2010.... - Digital pathology in Europe: coordinating patient care and research effortsMarcial Garcia Rojo
Hospital General de Ciudad Real, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain
Stud Health Technol Inform 150:997-1001. 2009..Nowadays, further discussion is needed on the adequacy of current existing technical solutions, including for instance quality of images obtained by scanners, or the efficiency of image analysis applications... - Text mining and natural language processing approaches for automatic categorization of lay requests to web-based expert forumsWolfgang Himmel
Department of General Practice Family Medicine, University of Gottingen, Humboldtallee 38, 37070 Gottingen, Germany
J Med Internet Res 11:e25. 2009..Both healthy and sick people increasingly use electronic media to obtain medical information and advice. For example, Internet users may send requests to Web-based expert forums, or so-called "ask the doctor" services... - Data standards in clinical research: gaps, overlaps, challenges and future directionsRachel L Richesson
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 3650 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:687-96. 2007..Unresolved issues and informatics challenges related to the adoption of clinical research data and terminology standards are mentioned, as are the collaborations and activities the authors perceive as most likely to address them... - A primer on aspects of cognition for medical informaticsV L Patel
Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 8:324-43. 2001As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and cognitive sciences... - Implementing the NHS information technology programme: qualitative study of progress in acute trustsJane Hendy
Innovation Studies Centre, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ
BMJ 334:1360. 2007..To describe progress and perceived challenges in implementing the NHS information and technology (IT) programme in England... - Health professionals' views of informatics education: findings from the AMIA 1999 spring conferenceN Staggers
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 7:550-8. 2000.... - Publication trends in the medical informatics literature: 20 years of "Medical Informatics" in MeSHJonathan P Deshazo
Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7240, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 9:7. 2009..of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis over a twenty year period (1987-2006). - Clinical research informatics: challenges, opportunities and definition for an emerging domainPeter J Embi
Center for Health Informatics, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, 231 Albert Sabin Way, PO Box 670840, Cincinnati, OH, 45267 0840, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:316-27. 2009..Clinical Research Informatics, an emerging sub-domain of Biomedical Informatics, is currently not well defined. A formal description of CRI including major challenges and opportunities is needed to direct progress in the field... - Development of a taxonomy for health information technologyBrian E Dixon
AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology, Maryland, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 129:616-20. 2007..Later developments, such as MEDLINE, expanded MeSH to include a number of medical informatics terms... - Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learntPeter Littlejohns
National Institute for Clinical Excellence, London WC2N 5HR, Knowledge Management Centre, School of Public Policy, University College London, London WC1H 9E2
BMJ 326:860-3. 2003 - Usability of quality measures for online health information: Can commonly used technical quality criteria be reliably assessed?Elmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 74:675-83. 2005..Therefore, we assessed the degree to which two raters could reliably assess 22 popularly cited quality criteria on a sample of 42 complementary and alternative medicine Web sites... - Informatics in radiology (infoRAD): NeatVision: visual programming for computer-aided diagnostic applicationsPaul F Whelan
Vision Systems Group, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
Radiographics 24:1779-89. 2004..Both NeatVision standard and developer's versions can be downloaded free of charge from the Internet and can run on a variety of computer platforms... - Outbreak detection through automated surveillance: a review of the determinants of detectionDavid L Buckeridge
McGill Clinical and Health Informatics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, 1140 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1A3
J Biomed Inform 40:370-9. 2007..Future evaluations should aim to address inconsistencies in the evidence noted in this review and to identify the potential influence of other factors on outbreak detection... - A historical overview of health disparities and the potential of eHealth solutionsMichael C Gibbons
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 111 Market Place, Suite 850, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
J Med Internet Res 7:e50. 2005..Finally, this paper closes with a discussion of the potential benefits of eHealth applications and the possible contributions of the field to overcoming disparities in health and health care... - Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMedKumara Mendis
School of Rural Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Inform Prim Care 15:17-23. 2007..To obtain an overview of Australian health informatics (HI) research through a bibliometric analysis using PubMed... - "Is Cybermedicine Killing You?"--The story of a Cochrane disasterGunther Eysenbach
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Med Internet Res 7:e21. 2005.... - Bad health informatics can kill--is evaluation the answer?E Ammenwerth
Methods Inf Med 44:1-3. 2005..However, there are also hazards associated with ICT in health care. We want to present an overview of typical hazards associated with ICT in health care, and to discuss how ICT evaluation can be a solution... - Efficacy of quality criteria to identify potentially harmful information: a cross-sectional survey of complementary and alternative medicine web sitesMuhammad Walji
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Med Internet Res 6:e21. 2004..Consumers should be warned to use other means of validation or to trust only known sites. Quality criteria that consider the uniqueness of CAM must be developed and validated... - Long-term retention of knowledge after a distance course in medical informatics at Charles University PragueJ P Naidr
Charles University Prague, Second Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Informatics, Prague, Czech Republic
Teach Learn Med 16:255-9. 2004..The electronic distance learning called e-learning has evolved with the development of computer technologies and electronic communication... - The SAIL Databank: building a national architecture for e-health research and evaluationDavid V Ford
Health Information Research Unit, Centre for Health Information Research and Evaluation, School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 9:157. 2009..However, there are considerable challenges that must be addressed before such data can be used for these purposes, to ensure compliance with the legislation and guidelines generally known as Information Governance... - Evidence-based patient choice and consumer health informatics in the Internet ageG Eysenbach
Research Unit for Cybermedicine and eHealth Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 3:E19. 2001.... - Informatics in radiology: integration of the medical imaging resource center into a teaching hospital network to allow single sign-on accessLuciano M Prevedello
Center for Evidence Based Imaging, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 20 Kent St, Brookline, MA 02445, USA
Radiographics 29:973-9. 2009..A commercial directory service using LDAP has been successfully integrated with MIRC in a large multifacility enterprise to provide single sign-on capability compatible with the institutional networking policies for password security... - Delivery of health informatics education and trainingJ M Brittain
School of Communications and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
Health Libr Rev 17:117-28. 2000..However, there is now a plethora of education and training programmes in North America, most European countries, and Australasia... - Informatics in radiology: DICOM-RT-based electronic patient record information system for radiation therapyMaria Y Y Law
Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Radiographics 29:961-72. 2009.... - Medical informatics in the intensive care unit: overview of technology assessmentNeill Adhikari
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
J Crit Care 18:41-7. 2003..Recently, medical informatics applications have been developed to store and display patient information and assist clinical decision .. - Informatics in radiology: RadiologyWiki.org: the free radiology resource that anyone can editJonathan L Streeter
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Radiographics 27:1193-200. 2007..Nevertheless, it is hoped that RadiologyWiki will develop into a free, simple, and rapid collaborative authorship tool for communication and education in radiology... - Informatics in radiology: A prototype Web-based reporting system for onsite-offsite clinician communicationCorey W Arnold
Medical Imaging Informatics Group and the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 924 Westwood Blvd, Suite 420, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Radiographics 27:1201-11. 2007..The system may be adapted to any clinician-specialist communication loop, and, because it integrates radiologic standards with Web-based technologies, can more effectively communicate and document imaging data... - The future of medical computingBlackford Middleton
Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners Health Care System, Harvard Medical School, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 80:85-98. 2002..Rather, it is the author's intent to present several visions of the future of medical computing and outline the issues, which must be overcome to achieve the vision... - Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the artR J Cline
Department of Health Science Education, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, USA
Health Educ Res 16:671-92. 2001..Both interpersonal and mass communication concepts open avenues for investigation and understanding the influence of the Internet on health beliefs and behaviors, health care, medical outcomes, and the health care system... - E-health development policies in new member states in Central EuropeMariusz Duplaga
Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College Centre of Innovation, Technology Transfer and University Development, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
World Hosp Health Serv 43:34-8. 2007..All these countries started painful reform in early 90s after the fall of the communist governments. The health care system in general was not the prime benefactors of these changes... - An inventory of evaluation studies of information technology in health care trends in evaluation research 1982-2002E Ammenwerth
UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Institute for Health Information Systems, Eduard Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, 6060 Hall in Tyrol, Austria
Methods Inf Med 44:44-56. 2005..evaluation studies as well as the interest in adequate methods and approaches for evaluation has grown in medical informatics. In order to put this discussion into historical perspective of evaluation research, we conducted a .. - Critical evaluation of the JDO API for the persistence and portability requirements of complex biological databasesMarko Srdanovic
Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 6:5. 2005..SigPath is an example of a complex biological database that needs to store various types of information connected by many relationships... - A Taxonomic Search Engine: federating taxonomic databases using web servicesRoderic D M Page
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
BMC Bioinformatics 6:48. 2005..Furthermore, the same organism may have more than one name, and the same name may apply to more than one organism... - Information technology in the future of health careMyron Hatcher
Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno, California 93740, USA
J Med Syst 28:673-88. 2004..Technology advances in health care delivery will be discussed. Specific applications are presented and explained and future trends discussed. Four applications are defined, and related to categories of technologies and their attributes... - Future trends in Health Informatics--theoretical and practicalJ Mantas
Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, 123, Papadiamantopoulou Street, 11527 Athens, Greece
Stud Health Technol Inform 109:114-27. 2004..In this chapter, a brief overview of the field as well the trends of Health Informatics are discussed with respect to the new dimensions that the education of the health care professionals has to tackle in the foreseeable future... - Gender and online health information: a partitioned technology assessmentDaniel Lorence
Department of Health Policy and Administration and School of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Health Info Libr J 24:204-9. 2007..To examine the extent to which health information seeking behaviors vary across genders or are differentially associated with access to computers, the Internet, and online health information... - Evidence-based medicine for consumers: a role for the Cochrane CollaborationPamela J White
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030 5370, USA
J Med Libr Assoc 90:218-22. 2002..Suggestions for further research into consumer use of the Cochrane Library and consumer involvement with the Cochrane Collaboration are discussed... - CISMeF-patient: a French counterpart to MEDLINEplusStefan Darmoni
Computing Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen, INSA de Rouen, France
J Med Libr Assoc 90:248-53. 2002 - Ontology-based approach for managing personal health and wellness informationAnna Sachinopoulou
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:1802-5. 2007..The ontology collection emphasizes wellness aspects while clinical data is modelled by using OID references to existing vocabularies. Modular ontology approach enables distributed management and expansion of the data model... - Information on telemedicineNancy A Brown
Telemedicine Research Center, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
J Telemed Telecare 11:117-26. 2005..While telemedicine cannot yet be considered to be part of mainstream health care, it has become a more familiar part of health terminology worldwide... - Resolving clinicians' queries across a Grid's infrastructureF Estrella
CCCS Research Centre, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Methods Inf Med 44:149-53. 2005..CONCLUSION: This paper focuses on one of the key requirements for large-scale distributed mammogram analysis: resolving queries across a grid-connected federation of images...
Research Grants
- Implementing Computerized Clinical Assessment of HIV Patient AdherenceAllen L Gifford; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Wound EMR to Decrease Limb Amputations in Persons with DiabetesHarold Brem; Fiscal Year: 2010..The OWEMR is a web-based medical informatics tool that synthesizes data about complex wound problems from multiple sources, identifies information ..
- ETHNIC DISPARITY IN THE USE OF JOINT ARTHROPLASTYDENNIS ANG; Fiscal Year: 2007..substantial in-kind support for a fellowship program that includes 12 trainees in health services research, medical informatics, and geriatrics. Access to truly rich and supportive research environment is available to the candidate...
- META ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL INFORMATION SERVICE TRIALSE Balas; Fiscal Year: 2001..and quantitative reviews (meta- analyses) of the available evidence have not been published in the area of medical informatics. The purpose of this project is to assess the clinical value of computer- assisted and conventional ..
- Multi-institutional Consortium for CER in Diabetes Treatment and PreventionJOE VANDIVER SELBY; Fiscal Year: 2010..who study diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus, childhood and adult obesity, weight management, medical informatics and biostatistics...
- Implementing Computerized Clinical Assessment of HIV Patient AdherenceAllen Gifford; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Implementing Computerized Clinical Assessment of HIV Patient AdherenceAllen Gifford; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Center on Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA)Alan Garber; Fiscal Year: 2007..be conducted by collaborating psychologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians and other physicians, experts on medical informatics, epidemiologists, and economists...
- Hospital Medicine and Economics Centers for Education & Research for TherapeuticsDavid Meltzer; Fiscal Year: 2007..The Hospital Medicine and Economics CERT will also gain national scope and impact through an important partnership with the Society of Hospital Medicine, and through affiliation with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). ..
- Enhancing Research Informatics Capacity for Health Information in Colombia (ENRICJuan Carlos Puyana; Fiscal Year: 2009..Training a cadre of healthy professionals capable of offering medical informatics solutions to best study each and every one of these health afflictions will have a major impact on public ..
- DATA MINING AND MODEL BUILDING IN MEDICAL INFORMATICSBruce Buchanan; Fiscal Year: 2001..We will test the generality of the generality of the criteria used to evaluate models and discoveries with Bayesian Net learning system, K2. ..
- Automated Detection of Anomalous Accesses to Electronic Health RecordsBradley A Malin; Fiscal Year: 2010..For the most part, the medical informatics and computer science communities have focused on the external threat, which has led to the development of ..
- Automated Detection of Anomalous Accesses to Electronic Health RecordsBradley Malin; Fiscal Year: 2009..For the most part, the medical informatics and computer science communities have focused on the external threat, which has led to the development of ..