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Data sources and registries in healthcare

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Computational techniques for drug repositioning

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Open source medical software

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Health information privacy and security

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New Content Item (1) Counterfactual prediction models in medicine

Guest Edited by Umesh Kumar Lilhore and Matthew Sperrin

Advanced machine learning and health-related multi-omics data 

Guest Edited by Alejandro Rodriguez Gonzalez and Wei Lan

New Content ItemPatient involvement and shared decision making

Guest Edited by Gaetano Gallo and Rosanne Janssens

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New Content ItemOntology-driven and weakly supervised rare disease identification from clinical notes

New Content ItemDe-identified Bayesian personal identity matching for privacy-preserving record linkage despite errors: development and validation

New Content ItemDevelopment and usability evaluation of an electronic health report form to assess health in young people: a mixed-methods approach

New Content ItemDigital encounter decision aids linked to clinical practice guidelines: results from user testing SHARE-IT decision aids in primary care


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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making for human health.

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  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.9 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.384 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.940 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

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    24 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    170 days submission to accept (Median)

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