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Melissa Norton, MD

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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Hannah Clark PhD


Welcome to BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making published by BioMed Central
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.



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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.


BMC  Latest supplements published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making


Volume 9 Suppl 1
Research
Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 November 2008





BMC  Latest articles published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making        [more info]


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 (6November2009)
[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 (20October2009)
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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 (8October2009)
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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 (15September2009)
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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 (11September2009)
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Technical advance
Privacy-preserving record linkage using Bloom filters
Rainer Schnell, Tobias Bachteler, Jrg Reiher
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9:41 (25August2009)
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Study protocol
Improving healthcare consumer effectiveness: An Animated, Self-serve, Web-based Research 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 (20August2009)
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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 (10August2009)
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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 (10August2009)
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Research article
Physicians' attitudes towards ePrescribing evaluation of a Swedish full-scale implementation
Lina Hellstrm, Karolina Waern, Emelie Montelius, Bengt strand, Tony Rydberg, Gran Petersson
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9:37 (7August2009)
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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 (6November2009)
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Commentary
The impact of networks on clinical trials in the United Kingdomom
Sze May Ng, Alan Michael Weindling
Trials 2009, 10:100 (4November2009)
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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 (31October2009)
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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 (30October2009)
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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 (29October2009)
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Commentary
Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world
Cameron Neylon
Automated Experimentation 2009, 1:3 (29October2009)
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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 (28October2009)
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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 (28October2009)
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Methodology
Local indicators of geocoding accuracy (LIGA): theory and application
Geoffrey M Jacquez, Robert Rommel
International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8:60 (28October2009)
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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 (23October2009)
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