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This section considers manuscripts on the development, use and evaluation of health information technology, health information exchange and electronic health records, as well as studies on barriers to technology acceptance in the healthcare setting
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Health care institutions have patient question sets that can expand over time. For a multispecialty group, each specialty might have multiple question sets. As a result, question set governance can be challeng...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:41
Recent advances in the adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) have had a dramatic impact on the practice of medicine. In many environments, this has led to the ability to achieve new efficienc...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:40
The way we look at data has a great impact on how we can understand it, particularly when the data is related to health and wellness. Due to the increased use of self-tracking devices and the ongoing shift tow...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:38
The robustness of epidemiological research using routinely collected primary care electronic data to support policy and practice for common mental disorders (CMD) anxiety and depression would be greatly enhanc...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:35
Electronic medical records (EMRs) used in primary care contain a breadth of data that can be used in public health research. Patient data from EMRs could be linked with other data sources, such as a postal cod...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:32
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a well-recognized public health problem and a major cause of death and hospitalization in developed countries. The safety of a new drug cannot be established until it has been...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:27
Implementation delays are common in health information technology (HIT) projects. In this paper, we sought to explore the reasons for delays in implementing major hospital-based HIT, through studying computeri...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:25
An Early Warning Score is a clinical risk score based upon vital signs intended to aid recognition of patients in need of urgent medical attention. The use of an escalation of care policy based upon an Early W...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:19
Free-text medication prescriptions contain detailed instruction information that is key when preparing drug data for analysis. The objective of this study was to develop a novel model and automated text-mining...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:18
Text messaging is an affordable, ubiquitous, and expanding mobile communication technology. However, safety net health systems in the United States that provide more care to uninsured and low-income patients m...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:16
Although MIMIC-II, a public intensive care database, has been recognized as an invaluable resource for many medical researchers worldwide, becoming a proficient MIMIC-II researcher requires knowledge of SQL pr...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:15
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that motivate nurses to protect privacy in electronic medical records, based on the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:13
The majority of health IT adoption research focuses on the later stages of the IT adoption process: namely on the implementation phase. The first stage, however, which is defined as the knowledge-stage, remain...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:10
An interoperable electronic health record is a secure consolidated record of an individual’s health history and care, designed to facilitate authorized information sharing across the care continuum. Each Cana...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:8
Although champions are commonly employed in health information technology (HIT) implementations, the state of empirical literature on HIT champions’ is unclear. The purpose of our review was to synthesize quan...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:2
An increasing number of clinical trials are conducted in primary care settings. Making better use of existing data in the electronic health records to identify eligible subjects can improve efficiency of such ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:1
Today, cancer documentation is still a tedious task involving many different information systems even within a single institution and it is rarely supported by appropriate documentation workflows.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:107
One of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of openEHR methodology is the lack of practical persistence solutions for future-proof electronic health record (EHR) systems as described by the openEHR...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:88
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:21
Although policy discourses frame integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs) as essential for contemporary healthcare systems, increased information sharing often raises concerns among patients and the public....
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:86
Our aim was to explore the approaches to and the challenges and benefits of implementing Electronic Patient Record systems (EPRs) into NHS acute, mental health and community care hospitals throughout England.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:85
Important barriers for widespread use of health information exchange (HIE) are usability and interface issues. However, most HIEs are implemented without performing a needs assessment with the end users, healt...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:81
We designed and validated a rule-based expert system to identify influenza like illness (ILI) from routinely recorded general practice clinical narrative to aid a larger retrospective research study into the i...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:78
In the UK occupational therapy pre-discharge home visits are routinely carried out as a means of facilitating safe transfer from the hospital to home. Whilst they are an integral part of practice, there is lit...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:73
The increasing pervasiveness of mobile technologies has given potential to transform healthcare by facilitating clinical management using software applications. These technologies may provide valuable tools in...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:72
There is general consensus that appropriate development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are crucial in the delivery of effective primary care (PC). Several countries are defining po...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:70
Health decision-making requires evidence from high-quality data. As one example, the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) compiles data from the majority of Canadian hospitals to form one of the most comprehensiv...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:69
With the increasing implementation of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR) in developing countries, there is a growing need to identify antecedents of EMR success to measure and predict the level of adoptio...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:61
Clinical trials apply standards approved by regulatory agencies for Electronic Data Capture (EDC). Operational Data Model (ODM) from Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is commonly used. Ele...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:40
The Operating Room (OR) is a key resource of all major hospitals, but it also accounts for up 40 % of resource costs. Improving cost effectiveness, while maintaining a quality of care, is a universal objective...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:38
Personal Health Records (PHRs) are electronic health records controlled, shared or maintained by patients to support patient centered care. The potential for PHRs to transform health care is significant; howev...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:32
The widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) has generated massive clinical data storage. Association rules mining is a feasible technique to convert this large amount of data into usable knowledge f...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:29
Numerous calls have been made for greater assimilation of information technology in healthcare organizations in general, and in primary care settings in particular. Considering the levels of IT investment and ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:27
Cloud computing is a recent and fast growing area of development in healthcare. Ubiquitous, on-demand access to virtually endless resources in combination with a pay-per-use model allow for new ways of develop...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:17
Adverse drug reactions are one of the most common causes of death in industrialized Western countries. Nowadays, empirical data from clinical studies for the approval and monitoring of drugs and molecular data...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:15
This case study over time describes five years of experience with interventions to improve laboratory test utilization at an academic medical center. The high-frequency laboratory tests showing the biggest dec...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:11
Real-world data on the benefit/risk profile of medicines is needed, particularly in patients who are ineligible for randomised controlled trials conducted for registration purposes. This paper describes the me...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:8
Medical research networks rely on record linkage and pseudonymization to determine which records from different sources relate to the same patient. To establish informational separation of powers, the required...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:2
For disease surveillance, manual data collection using paper-based questionnaires can be time consuming and prone to errors. We introduced smartphone data collection to replace paper-based data collection for ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:107
The maturity and usage of wireless technology has influenced health services, and this has raised expectations from users that healthcare services will become more affordable due to technology growth. There is...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:98
Patient data from general practices is already used for many types of epidemiological research and increasingly, primary care systems to facilitate randomized clinical trials. The EU funded project TRANSFoRm a...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:118
Meaningful Use (MU) provides financial incentives for electronic health record (EHR) implementation. EHR implementation holds promise for improving healthcare delivery, but also requires substantial changes fo...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:119
Electronic medical record systems are being implemented in many countries to support healthcare services. However, its adoption rate remains low, especially in developing countries due to technological, financ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:115
Early recognition of severe sepsis and septic shock is challenging. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of an electronic alert system in detecting severe sepsis or septic shock among...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:105
Effective surgical pre-assessment will depend upon the collection of relevant medical information, good data management and communication between the members of the preoperative multi-disciplinary team. NHS Gr...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:93
The amount of clinical information that providers encounter daily creates an environment for information overload and medical error. To create a more efficient EMR human-computer interface, we aimed to underst...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:92
Adverse Drug Reactions are one of the leading causes of injury or death among patients undergoing medical treatments. Not all Adverse Drug Reactions are identified before a drug is made available in the market...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:91
Childhood cancer relies heavily on inpatient hospital services to deliver tumor-directed therapy and manage toxicities. Hospitalizations have increased over the past decade, though not uniformly across childho...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:88
Syndromic surveillance in emergency departments (EDs) may be used to deliver early warnings of increases in disease activity, to provide situational awareness during events of public health significance, to su...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:84
Medication non-adherence is prevalent. We assessed the effect of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) with formulary decision support on preferred formulary tier usage, copayment, and concomitant adherence.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:79
E-health initiatives hold promise to improve shared-care models of health care. In 2008–2011 we developed and trialled web-based software to facilitate a randomised trial of a shared-care approach for childhoo...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:61
Citation Impact
2.317 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.745 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.675 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.908 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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