Current Issue June 2012, Vol. 81, No. 6

Issue Highlights

Internet use by the public to search for health-related information
June 2012(Vol. 81 | No. 6 | Pages 363-373)
Khalid M. AlGhamdi, Noura A. Moussa

Online usability and patients with long-term conditions: A mixed-methods approach
June 2012(Vol. 81 | No. 6 | Pages 374-387)
Hans C. Ossebaard, Erwin R. Seydel, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen

Evaluation of mobile phone and Internet intervention on waist circumference and blood pressure in post-menopausal women with abdominal obesity
June 2012(Vol. 81 | No. 6 | Pages 388-394)
Min-Jeong Park, Hee-Seung Kim

Detecting temporal expressions in medical narratives
18 May 2012
Ruth M. Reeves, Ferdo R. Ong, Michael E. Matheny, Joshua C. Denny, Dominik Aronsky, Glenn T. Gobbel, Diane Montella, Theodore Speroff, Steven H. Brown
Highlights: ► TimeML's temporal model can represent temporal expressions in medical records. ► Automated temporal reference extraction and classification is achievable. ► Med-TTK's temporal reference ...
Conducting an efficient proactive risk assessment prior to CPOE implementation in an intensive care unit
18 May 2012
Ann Schoofs Hundt, Jean A. Adams, J. Andrew Schmid, Linda M. Musser, James M. Walker, Tosha B. Wetterneck, Stephen V. Douglas, Bonnie L. Paris, Pascale Carayon
Abstract: Purpose: To develop, conduct, and evaluate a proactive risk assessment (PRA) of the design and implementation of CPOE in an ICU. Methods: We developed a PRA method based on issues identified...
The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project (EPGP) informatics platform
14 May 2012
Gerry Nesbitt, Kevin McKenna, Vickie Mays, Alan Carpenter, Kevin Miller, Michael Williams, The EPGP Investigators
Highlights: ► A web-based system to manage and coordinate multi-site studies is essential. ► EPGP has benefited from its custom developed informatics platform. ► The quality of the data collected has ...
Telemedicine: Technology mediated service relationship, encounter, or something else?
14 May 2012
Cynthia LeRouge, Monica J. Garfield, Rosann Webb Collins
Highlights: ► Understanding the relationships between primary telemedicine actors. ► Understanding organizational actions needed in telemedicine service processes. ► Identification of the telemedicine...
How physicians document outpatient visit notes in an electronic health record
30 April 2012
Stephanie E. Pollard, Pamela M. Neri, Allison R. Wilcox, Lynn A. Volk, Deborah H. Williams, Gordon D. Schiff, Harley Z. Ramelson, David W. Bates
Highlights: ► Physicians predominantly used one method to document visit notes and were satisfied. ► Variation existed in method used across physician and practice characteristics. ► Further research ...

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International Journal of Medical Informatics provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics. The Journal emphasizes the evaluation of systems in healthcare settings.

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Information systems, including national or international registration systems, hospital information systems, departmental and/or physician's office systems, document handling systems, electronic medical record systems, standardization, systems integration etc.;
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The International Journal of Medical Informatics is the official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the European Regional Council of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).