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In-house Editor Hannah Clark PhD
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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 within the healthcare setting.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (ISSN 1472-6947) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :41
A new protocol using Bloom filters can encrypt identifying information while allowing reasonable rates of matching to other data sets and thus permit linkage of records from databases with privacy-preserving requirements.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :28
The application of a data mining algorithm to patient records and physicians' prescriptions can identify knowledge gaps in available clinical guidelines and provide supplementary information to complete guideline recommendations.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :24
A novel definition of the terminology for the different disciplines encompassed by biomedical informatics and health information technology is proposed, with the aim of stirring debate and stimulating consensus on their meaning and use.
Volume 9 Suppl 1
Research
Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 November 2008
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Research article
The feasibility of a web-based counselling program for occupational physicians and employees on sick leave due to back or neck pain Tanja de Jong, Judith Heinrich, Birgitte M Blatter, Johannes R Anema, Allard J van der Beek BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :46 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Retraction
Retraction: Estimation of progression of multi-state chronic disease using the Markov model and prevalence pool concept Hui-Chuan Shih, Pesus Chou, Chi-Ming Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :45 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Debate
Information management to enable personalized medicine: stakeholder roles in building clinical decision support Gregory J Downing, Scott N Boyle, Kristin M Brinner, Jerome A Osheroff BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :44 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
An interdisciplinary team communication framework and its application to healthcare 'e-teams' systems design Craig E Kuziemsky, Elizabeth M Borycki, Mary Ellen Purkis, Fraser Black, Michael Boyle, Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Lee Ann Fox, Patricia MacKenzie, Ann Syme, Coby Tschanz, Wendy Wainwright, Helen Wong, Interprofessional Practices Team (alphabetically) BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :43 (15 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Correspondence
A global approach to the management of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) of patients with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: the experience of DREAM Software Andrea Nucita, Giuseppe M Bernava, Michelangelo Bartolo, Fabio Di Pane Masi, Pietro Giglio, Marco Peroni, Giovanni Pizzimenti, Leonardo Palombi BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :42 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Technical advance
Privacy-preserving record linkage using Bloom filters Rainer Schnell, Tobias Bachteler, J BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :41 (25 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Study protocol
Improving healthcare consumer effectiveness: An An imated, S elf-serve, We b-based R esearch Tool (ANSWER) for people with early rheumatoid arthritis Linda C Li, Paul Adam, Anne F Townsend, Dawn Stacey, Diane Lacaille, Susan Cox, Jessie McGowan, Peter Tugwell, Gerri Sinclair, Kendall Ho, Catherine L Backman BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :40 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Disease surveillance using a hidden Markov model Rochelle E Watkins, Serryn Eagleson, Bert Veenendaal, Graeme Wright, Aileen J Plant BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :39 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Access to electronic health records by care setting and provider type: perceptions of cancer care providers in Ontario, Canada Margo C Orchard, Mark J Dobrow, Lawrence Paszat, Hedy Jiang, Patrick Brown BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :38 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Physicians' attitudes towards ePrescribing Lina Hellstr BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :37 (7 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
Repeatability of nerve conduction measurements derived entirely by computer methods Xuan Kong, Eugene A Lesser, Shai N Gozani BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :33 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Commentary
The impact of networks on clinical trials in the United Kingdomom Sze May Ng, Alan Michael Weindling Trials 2009, 10 :100 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
A cost-utility analysis of cervical cancer vaccination in preadolescent Canadian females Andrea M Anonychuk, Chris T Bauch, Maraki Fikre Merid, Georges Van Kriekinge, Nadia Demarteau BMC Public Health 2009, 9 :401 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Developing and pre-testing a decision board to facilitate informed choice about delivery approach in uncomplicated pregnancy Jill Milne, Amiram Gafni, Diane Lu, Stephen Wood, Reg Sauve, Sue Ross BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2009, 9 :50 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Review
Insurance data for research in
companion animals: benefits and limitations
Agneta Egenvall, Ane Nodtvedt, Johanna Penell, Lotta Gunnarsson, Brenda N Bonnett Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51 :42 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Commentary
Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world Cameron Neylon Automated Experimentation 2009, 1 :3 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Robust algorithm for arrhythmia classification in ECG using extreme learning machine Jinkwon Kim, Hang Sik Shin, Kwangsoo Shin, Myoungho Lee BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :31 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Evaluating the informatics for integrating biology and the bedside system for clinical research.
Vikrant G Deshmukh, Stephane M Meystre, Joyce A Mitchell BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9 :70 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology
Local indicators of geocoding accuracy (LIGA): theory and application Geoffrey M Jacquez, Robert Rommel International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8 :60 (28 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Construction of an annotated corpus to support biomedical information extraction Paul Thompson, Syed A Iqbal, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :349 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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