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Privacy protection of medical data in social network

Protection of privacy data published in the health care field is an important research field. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the USA is the current legislation for privacy p...

Authors: Jie Su, Yi Cao, Yuehui Chen, Yahui Liu and Jinming Song

Sustainability of a mobile phone application-based data reporting system in Myanmar’s malaria elimination program: a qualitative study

Strengthening surveillance systems to collect near-real-time case-based data plays a fundamental role in achieving malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). With the advanced and widespread us...

Authors: Win Han Oo, Kaung Myat Thu, Julia C. Cutts, Win Htike, Kyawt Mon Win, May Chan Oo, Naw Hkawng Galau, Paul A. Agius, Pyae Phyo Htoon, Ellen Kearney, Aung Thi, Ye Win Aung, Min Min Thein, Kathryn Rosecrans, Kyi Tun Lwin, Aung Kyi Min…

Application of Bayesian network and regression method in treatment cost prediction

Charging according to disease is an important way to effectively promote the reform of medical insurance mechanism, reasonably allocate medical resources and reduce the burden of patients, and it is also an im...

Authors: Li-Li Tong, Jin-Bo Gu, Jing-Jiao Li, Guang-Xuan Liu, Shuo-Wei Jin and Ai-Yun Yan

U-Net combined with multi-scale attention mechanism for liver segmentation in CT images

The liver is an important organ that undertakes the metabolic function of the human body. Liver cancer has become one of the cancers with the highest mortality. In clinic, it is an important work to extract th...

Authors: Jiawei Wu, Shengqiang Zhou, Songlin Zuo, Yiyin Chen, Weiqin Sun, Jiang Luo, Jiantuan Duan, Hui Wang and Deguang Wang

The impact of data from remote measurement technology on the clinical practice of healthcare professionals in depression, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis: survey

A variety of smartphone apps and wearables are available both to help patients monitor their health and to support health care professionals (HCPs) in providing clinical care. As part of the RADAR-CNS consorti...

Authors: J. A. Andrews, M. P. Craven, A. R. Lang, B. Guo, R. Morriss and C. Hollis

An informatics consult approach for generating clinical evidence for treatment decisions

An Informatics Consult has been proposed in which clinicians request novel evidence from large scale health data resources, tailored to the treatment of a specific patient. However, the availability of such co...

Authors: Alvina G. Lai, Wai Hoong Chang, Constantinos A. Parisinos, Michail Katsoulis, Ruth M. Blackburn, Anoop D. Shah, Vincent Nguyen, Spiros Denaxas, George Davey Smith, Tom R. Gaunt, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Murray P. Cox, Donall Forde, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Steve Harris, Sylvia Richardson…

Determining the effect of tele-rehabilitation on patients with stutter using the goal attainment scaling (GAS)

Lack of proper and timely patients' access to speech pathologists can affect the treatment and follow-up process; therefore, patients do not achieve the expected therapeutic goals. The aim of this study was to...

Authors: Maryam Eslami Jahromi and Leila Ahmadian

The impact of a computerized physician order entry system implementation on 20 different criteria of medication documentation—a before-and-after study

The medication process is complex and error-prone. To avoid medication errors, a medication order should fulfil certain criteria, such as good readability and comprehensiveness. In this context, a computerized...

Authors: Viktoria Jungreithmayr, Andreas D. Meid, Walter E. Haefeli and Hanna M. Seidling

Correction to: Criteria for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines in paediatrics and neonatology: a mixed-method study

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Joanna Dagard, Nadia Mazille-Orfanos, Nawras Georgi, Intissar Dechicha, Guy Carrault, Patrick Pladys and Alain Beuchée

Correction to: Skills and key education needed for clinical librarians: an exploratory study from the librarians’ perspectives

Authors: Maryam Zarghani, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Zahra Dinpajoo, Arezoo Ghamgosar, Sedegheh Khani and Maryam Khazaee-Pool

A framework for validating AI in precision medicine: considerations from the European ITFoC consortium

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our healthcare systems significantly. New AI technologies based on machine learning approaches should play a key role in clinical decision-making in ...

Authors: Rosy Tsopra, Xose Fernandez, Claudio Luchinat, Lilia Alberghina, Hans Lehrach, Marco Vanoni, Felix Dreher, O.Ugur Sezerman, Marc Cuggia, Marie de Tayrac, Edvins Miklasevics, Lucian Mihai Itu, Marius Geanta, Lesley Ogilvie, Florence Godey, Cristian Nicolae Boldisor…

Applying nonlinear measures to the brain rhythms: an effective method for epilepsy diagnosis

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder from which almost 50 million people have been suffering. These statistics indicate the importance of epilepsy diagnosis. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals analysis is one o...

Authors: Ali Torabi and Mohammad Reza Daliri

Clinical connectivity map for drug repurposing: using laboratory results to bridge drugs and diseases

Drug repurposing, the process of identifying additional therapeutic uses for existing drugs, has attracted increasing attention from both the pharmaceutical industry and the research community. Many existing c...

Authors: Qianlong Wen, Ruoqi Liu and Ping Zhang

Criteria for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines in paediatrics and neonatology: a mixed-method study

Evidenced-based practice is a key component of quality care. This study aims to explore users’ expectations concerning paediatric local clinical practice guidelines.

Authors: Joanna Dagard, Nadia Mazille-Orfanos, Nawras Georgi, Intissar Dechicha, Guy Carrault, Patrick Pladys and Alain Beuchée

Use of large scale EHR data to evaluate A1c utilization among sickle cell disease patients

The glycated hemoglobin (A1c) test is not recommended for sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. We examine ordering patterns of diabetes-related tests for SCD patients to explore misutilization of tests among th...

Authors: Shivani Sivasankar, An-Lin Cheng, Ira M. Lubin, Kamani Lankachandra and Mark A. Hoffman

An automated data cleaning method for Electronic Health Records by incorporating clinical knowledge

The use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) data in clinical research is incredibly increasing, but the abundancy of data resources raises the challenge of data cleaning. It can save time if the data cleaning c...

Authors: Xi Shi, Charlotte Prins, Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Pavlos Mamouris, Bert Vaes and Bart De Moor

Privacy-preserving dataset combination and Lasso regression for healthcare predictions

Recent developments in machine learning have shown its potential impact for clinical use such as risk prediction, prognosis, and treatment selection. However, relevant data are often scattered across different...

Authors: Marie Beth van Egmond, Gabriele Spini, Onno van der Galien, Arne IJpma, Thijs Veugen, Wessel Kraaij, Alex Sangers, Thomas Rooijakkers, Peter Langenkamp, Bart Kamphorst, Natasja van de L’Isle and Milena Kooij-Janic

Modeling count data for health care utilization: an empirical study of outpatient visits among Vietnamese older people

Vietnam is undergoing a fast-aging process that poses potential critical issues for older people and central among those is demand for healthcare utilization. However, healthcare utilization, here measured as ...

Authors: Duc Dung Le, Roberto Leon Gonzalez and Joseph Upile Matola

Factors associated with access to assistive technology and telecare in home-dwelling people with dementia: baseline data from the LIVE@Home.Path trial

There is a knowledge gap regarding factors that may influence the access to different devices for home-dwelling people with dementia (PwD). The aim of this study was to identify different assistive technology ...

Authors: Nathalie Genevieve Puaschitz, Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, Janne Mannseth, Renira Corinne Angeles, Line Iden Berge, Marie Hidle Gedde and Bettina Sandgathe Husebo

Automatic detection of actionable radiology reports using bidirectional encoder representations from transformers

It is essential for radiologists to communicate actionable findings to the referring clinicians reliably. Natural language processing (NLP) has been shown to help identify free-text radiology reports including...

Authors: Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Yukihiro Nomura, Takahiro Nakao, Soichiro Miki, Takeyuki Watadani, Takeharu Yoshikawa, Naoto Hayashi and Osamu Abe

Development and assessment of the usability of a web-based referral to treatment tool for persons with substance use disorders

Hospitalized people with unhealthy substance use should be referred to treatment. Although inpatient referral resources are often available, clinicians report that outpatient referral networks are not well-est...

Authors: Kelli Thoele, Mengmeng Yu, Mandeep Dhillon, Robert Skipworth Comer, Hannah L. Maxey, Robin Newhouse and Ukamaka M. Oruche

Common patient-reported outcomes across ICHOM Standard Sets: the potential contribution of PROMIS®

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) develops condition-specific Standard Sets of outcomes to be measured in clinical practice for value-based healthcare evaluation. Standard Se...

Authors: Caroline B. Terwee, Marloes Zuidgeest, Harald E. Vonkeman, David Cella, Lotte Haverman and Leo D. Roorda

ParaMed: a parallel corpus for English–Chinese translation in the biomedical domain

Biomedical language translation requires multi-lingual fluency as well as relevant domain knowledge. Such requirements make it challenging to train qualified translators and costly to generate high-quality tra...

Authors: Boxiang Liu and Liang Huang

Middle-aged and elderly users’ continuous usage intention of health maintenance-oriented WeChat official accounts: empirical study based on a hybrid model in China

Although middle-aged and elderly users are the main group targeted by health maintenance-oriented WeChat official accounts (HM-WOAs), few studies have explored the relationship of these accounts and their user...

Authors: Lin Xu, Pengfei Li, Xiaorong Hou, Hongfan Yu, Tingting Tang, Ting Liu, Shoushu Xiang, Xiaoqian Wu and Cheng Huang

YouTube as a source of information during the Covid-19 pandemic: a content analysis of YouTube videos published during January to March 2020

Institutions, government departments, and healthcare professionals engage in social media because it facilitates reaching a large number of people simultaneously. YouTube provides a platform whereby anyone can...

Authors: Lambodara Parabhoi, Ramani Ranjan Sahu, Rebecca Susan Dewey, Manoj Kumar Verma, Arbind Kumar Seth and Damodar Parabhoi

Efficient framework for predicting MiRNA-disease associations based on improved hybrid collaborative filtering

Accumulating studies indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) play vital roles in the process of development and progression of many human complex diseases. However, traditional biochemical experimental methods for i...

Authors: Ru Nie, Zhengwei Li, Zhu-hong You, Wenzheng Bao and Jiashu Li

Modeling and prediction of pressure injury in hospitalized patients using artificial intelligence

Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (PIs) induce significant patient suffering, inflate healthcare costs, and increase clinical co-morbidities. PIs are mostly due to bed-immobility, sensory impairment, bed pos...

Authors: Christine Anderson, Zerihun Bekele, Yongkai Qiu, Dana Tschannen and Ivo D. Dinov

Psychometric evaluation of a decision quality instrument for medication decisions for treatment of depression symptoms

A high quality treatment decision means patients are informed and receive treatment that matches their goals. This research examined the reliability and validity of the Depression Decision Quality Instrument (...

Authors: Suzanne Brodney, K. D. Valentine and Karen Sepucha

Patient connectivity with healthcare professionals and health insurer using digital health technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic: a German cross-sectional study

Digital health technologies enable patients to make a personal contribution to the improvement of their health by enabling them to manage their health. In order to exploit the potential of digital health techn...

Authors: Niels Hannemann, Nina-Alexandra Götz, Lisa Schmidt, Ursula Hübner and Birgit Babitsch

Effect of different visual presentations on the comprehension of prognostic information: a systematic review

Understanding prognostic information can help patients know what may happen to their health over time and make informed decisions. However, communicating prognostic information well can be challenging.

Authors: Eman Abukmail, Mina Bakhit, Chris Del Mar and Tammy Hoffmann

The effect of a smartphone application on women’s performance and health beliefs about breast self-examination: a quasi-experimental study

Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is a simple and inexpensive method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. This study aimed to determine the effect of a smartphone application on women’s performance and health bel...

Authors: Mitra Shakery, Manoosh Mehrabi and Zahra Khademian

Interoperability opportunities and challenges in linking mhealth applications and eRecord systems: Botswana as an exemplar

Significant investments have been made towards the implementation of mHealth applications and eRecord systems globally. However, fragmentation of these technologies remains a big challenge, often unresolved in...

Authors: Kagiso Ndlovu, Richard E. Scott and Maurice Mars

Teleconsultation demand classification and service analysis

To enhance teleconsultation management, demands can be classified into different patterns, and the service of each pattern demand can be improved.

Authors: Wenjia Chen and Jinlin Li

Classifying patient and professional voice in social media health posts

Patient-based analysis of social media is a growing research field with the aim of delivering precision medicine but it requires accurate classification of posts relating to patients’ experiences. We motivate ...

Authors: Beatrice Alex, Donald Whyte, Daniel Duma, Roma English Owen and Elizabeth A. L. Fairley

Patients-centered SurvivorShIp care plan after Cancer treatments based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence technologies (PERSIST): a multicenter study protocol to evaluate efficacy of digital tools supporting cancer survivors

It is encouraging to see a substantial increase in individuals surviving cancer. Even more so since most of them will have a positive effect on society by returning to work. However, many cancer survivors have...

Authors: Izidor Mlakar, Simon Lin, Ilona Aleksandraviča, Krista Arcimoviča, Jānis Eglītis, Mārcis Leja, Ángel Salgado Barreira, Jesús G. Gómez, Mercedes Salgado, Jesús G. Mata, Doroteja Batorek, Matej Horvat, Maja Molan, Maja Ravnik, Jean-François Kaux, Valérie Bleret…

Privacy-preserving data sharing infrastructures for medical research: systematization and comparison

Data sharing is considered a crucial part of modern medical research. Unfortunately, despite its advantages, it often faces obstacles, especially data privacy challenges. As a result, various approaches and in...

Authors: Felix Nikolaus Wirth, Thierry Meurers, Marco Johns and Fabian Prasser

Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction: an example using the Health and Retirement Survey and the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study

Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings. How...

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Skills and key education needed for clinical librarians: an exploratory study from the librarians' perspectives

A clinical librarian is a member of the medical team in many countries. To strengthen this new job, librarians need to acquire professional skills in order to provide information services to medical staff. In ...

Authors: Maryam Zarghani, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Zahra Dinpajoo, Arezoo Ghamgosar, Sedegheh Khani and Maryam Khazaee-Pool

Clinical decision support system RHINA in the diagnosis and treatment of acute or chronic rhinosinusitis

Rhinosinusitis is an inflammation of the sinonasal cavity which affects roughly one in seven people per year. Acute rhinosinusitis (ARS) is mostly, apart from allergic etiology, caused by a viral infection and...

Authors: L. Hart, A. Polášková and P. Schalek

Learnings from the design and acceptance of the German COVID-19 tracing app for IS-driven crisis management: a design science research

This article investigates the research problem of digital solutions to overcome the pandemic, more closely examining the limited effectiveness and scope of the governmental COVID-19 tracing apps, using the Ger...

Authors: Alina Behne, Nicolai Krüger, Jan Heinrich Beinke and Frank Teuteberg

Improvement of APACHE II score system for disease severity based on XGBoost algorithm

Prognostication is an essential tool for risk adjustment and decision making in the intensive care units (ICUs). In order to improve patient outcomes, we have been trying to develop a more effective model than...

Authors: Yan Luo, Zhiyu Wang and Cong Wang

Compliance with medical recommendations depending on the use of artificial intelligence as a diagnostic method

Advanced analytics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly gain relevance in medicine. However, patients’ responses to the involvement of AI in the care process remains largely unclear. The study a...

Authors: Michaela Soellner and Joerg Koenigstorfer

Home blood pressure data visualization for the management of hypertension: using human factors and design principles

Home blood pressure measurements have equal or even greater predictive value than clinic blood pressure measurements regarding cardiovascular outcomes. With advances in home blood pressure monitors, we face an...

Authors: Pete Wegier, Jeffery L. Belden, Shannon M. Canfield, Victoria A. Shaffer, Sonal J. Patil, Michael L. LeFevre, K. D. Valentine, Mihail Popescu, Linsey M. Steege, Akshay Jain and Richelle J. Koopman

Connected diagnostics to improve accurate diagnosis, treatment, and conditional payment of malaria services in Kenya

In sub-Saharan Africa, the material and human capacity to diagnose patients reporting with fever to healthcare providers is largely insufficient. Febrile patients are typically treated presumptively with antim...

Authors: Shannen M. C. van Duijn, Angela K. Siteyi, Sherzel Smith, Emmanuel Milimo, Leon Stijvers, Monica Oguttu, Michael O. Amollo, Edward O. Okeyo, Lilyana Dayo, Titus Kwambai, Dickens Onyango and Tobias F. Rinke de Wit

Health information systems in developing countries: case of African countries

In developing countries, health information system (HIS) is experiencing more and more difficulties to produce quality data. The lack of reliable health related information makes it difficult to develop effect...

Authors: Aimé Patrice Koumamba, Ulrick Jolhy Bisvigou, Edgard Brice Ngoungou and Gayo Diallo

COVID term: a bilingual terminology for COVID-19

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has shown its destructiveness with more than one million confirmed cases and dozens of tho...

Authors: Hetong Ma, Liu Shen, Haixia Sun, Zidu Xu, Li Hou, Sizhu Wu, An Fang, Jiao Li and Qing Qian

Mobile applications for road traffic health and safety in the mirror of the Haddon’s matrix

Road traffic accidents have been one of the leading causes of death. Despite the increasing trend of road traffic apps, there is no comprehensive analysis of their features and no taxonomy for the apps based o...

Authors: Hossein Aghayari, Leila R. Kalankesh, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani and Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi

Evaluating the success of the tele-pathology system in governmental hospitals in Kuwait: an explanatory sequential mixed methods design

Telepathology is the practice of reviewing and exchanging pathological images through telecommunication systems to obtain diagnoses remotely. Studying the factors that make such a system successful and favoura...

Authors: Ali Jasem Buabbas, Tareq Mohammad, Adel K. Ayed, Hawraa Mallah, Hamza Al-Shawaf and Abdulwahed Mohammed Khalfan

Impact of an interactive web tool on patients’ intention to receive COVID-19 vaccination: a before-and-after impact study among patients with chronic conditions in France

In France, about 30% of the population refuses COVID-19 vaccination outright, and 9 to 40% are hesitant. We developed and evaluated an interactive web tool providing transparent and reliable information on the...

Authors: Viet-Thi Tran, Stéphanie Sidorkiewicz, Clarisse Péan and Philippe Ravaud

Investigation of patients’ access to EHR data via smart apps in Chinese Hospitals

Given that China has encouraged EHR usage in hospitals for more than a decade, patients’ access to their own EHR data is still not as widely utilized as expected.

Authors: Ting Shu, Fan Xu, Hongxia Li and Wei Zhao