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The Human Factors Engineering Approach to Biomedical Informatics Projects: State of the Art, Results, Benefits and Challenges
Authors: Elkin Peter , Pelayo Sylvia , Beuscart Regis , Beuscart-Zéphir M.-C. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryThe objective of this paper is to define a comprehensible overview of the Human Factors approach to biomedical informatics applications for healthcare. The overview starts with a presentation of the necessity of a proper management of Human factors for Healthcare IT projects to avoid unusable products and unsafe work situations. The first section is dedicated to definitions of the Human Factors Engineering (HFE) main concepts. The second section describes a functional model of an HFE lifecycle adapted for healthcare work situations. The third section provides an overview of existing HF and usability methods for healthcare products and presents a selection of interesting results. Thelast section discusses the benefits and limitations of the HF Eapproach.Literature review based on Pubmedand conference proceedings in the field of Medical Informatics coupled with a review of other databases and conference proceedings in the field of Ergonomics focused on papers addressing healthcare work and system design.Usability studies performed on healthcare applications have uncovered unacceptable usability flaws that make the systems error prone, thus endangering the patient safety. Moreover, in many cases, the procurement and the implementation process simply forget about human factors: following only technological considerations, they issue potentially dangerous and always unpleasant work situations. But when properly applied to IT projects, the HFE approach proves efficient when seeking to improve patient safety, users’ satisfaction and adoption of the products.We recommend that the HFE methodology should be applied to most informatics and systems development projects, and the usability of the products should be systematically checked before permitting their release and implementation. This requires the development of Centers specialized in Human Factors for Healthcare and Patient safety in each Country/Region.
IMIA’s Publication History
Authors: Hutter M. , Peterson H. E. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryThis article lines out the various publications by which IMIA presents its work and the state-of-the art of health and biomedical informatics.A short history of IMIA and its publications is presented, a reference list completes the view.IMIA looks back on a long and fruitful publication history of more than a hundred publications.Starting from its foundation in 1967, IMIA has continually published the results of its activities and conferences, these publications being one of the most visible proofs of the liveliness and up-to-dateness of the organization and the field.
Health Information Systems
Authors: Bréant C. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health Information Systems
Published: March 2018

Summary

Objectives:
Summarize excellent current research in the field of Health Information Systems.

Method:
Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2010.

Results:
Five papers from international peer reviewed journals have been selected for the section on health information systems.

Conclusions:
The elected articles illustrate how health care IT alignment, assessment and benchmarking have become a challenge and a key aspect to the strengthening of health information systems in order to maintain and expand the objectives and strategies of organizations.
Findings from the Yearbook 2010 Section on Decision Support Systems
Authors: Ruch P. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Decision Support Systems
Published: March 2018

Summary

Objective:
To summarize current excellent research in the field of computer-based decision support systems in health and healthcare.

Methods:
We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2010, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in the field.

Results:
While the state of the research in the field of medical decision support systems is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous studies, it is possible to identify trends. Thus, clearly, the importance of studies related to computerized prescription order entry (CPOE) systems and guidelines management systems for both medical decision making and care providers, occupies a central role in the field, with application affecting also EHR vendors. In parallel, we observe translational interests for developing bridges with results generated by molecular biology, where the mass of data generated by high/ throughput experiments and large-scale genome analysis projects, raises specific processing challenges.

Conclusions:
The best paper selection of articles on decision support shows examples of excellent research on methods concerning original development as well as quality assurance of previously reported studies. This selected set of scientific investigations demonstrates the needs for computerized applications to transform the biomedical data overflow into more operational clinical knowledge. Altogether these papers support the idea that more elaborated computer tools, likely to combine heterogeneous contextual contents, are needed.
Nursing Informatics Education in the South: a Brazilian Experience
Authors: Marin H. F. 
Published: March 2018

Summary

Introduction:
Teaching and learning are critical factors to our survival, design our future and the way we live and determine the quality of our lives.

Methods:
This article summarizes aspects of nursing informatics education in the South, more specifically focusing in some of the undergraduate and graduate nursing informatics programs in Brazil. Considering the Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics by IMIA, the content provides an overview of the disciplines and share experience in the implementation of a certificate program in health informatics.

Results and Conclusions:
Since the initial activities in nursing informatics in Brazil, nurses have faced many challenges. Nursing informatics is not completely integrated into the nursing curriculum and the nursing informatics competencies are not established at national level.
A History of the INTERNIST-1 and Quick Medical Reference (QMR) Computer-Assisted Diagnosis Projects, with Lessons Learned
Authors: Miller R. A. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryThe INTERNIST-1/Quick Medical Reference (QMR) diagnostic decision support project spans four decades, from 1971-onward. This paper describes the history of the project and details insights gained of relevance to the general clinical and informatics communities.
A Scoping Review of Telehealth
Authors: Liu Y. , Abbott P. A. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives: This scoping review of the telehealth literature over the past year was conducted to provide a snapshot of some of the current developments in the field. As with any scoping review, only a subset of papers was examined, and the rigorous methods of a systematic review are not applied.
Methods: We surveyed selected dimensions of the current literature, specifically targeting telehealth or eHealth interventions at the patient (or micro) level in this scoping review. Considering the lack of clarity around the terms like mHealth, eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine, efforts were made understand and harmonize the terminology as part of the review process.
Results: A total of 171 papers that matched the search criteria were culled from the literature. After discussion and debate, a total of 26 papers were retained and classified into at least one of 5 conceptual categories that were derived form a concept analysis. The five categories are Preventive and Therapeutic Effects; Health Service Utilization; Challenges & Opportunities for Enhanced User Centered Design; Low-powered studies/inconclusive evidence; and Future trends in telehealth. Each of these 5 concept categories are discussed to provide a better understanding of present opportunities, challenges, and the overall prospects for telehealth advancement.
Conclusions: The field is expanding and maturing rapidly. There is a need for larger scale studies that balance rigor while reducing translational latency. Additional attention to implementation science methods is recommended as global telehealth projects accelerate.
A Review of the Empirical Evidence of the Healthcare Benefits of Personal Health Records
Authors: Fernando B. , Kalra D. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives: This literature review sought to identify the established evidence of the health and healthcare benefits (or harms) from the use of electronic personal health records (PHRs) and PHR systems.
Methods: The definition of a PHR published in ISO 14292 was used to scope this review and the search strategy. Publications were included if the introduction of a PHR was the primary intervention, and if its evaluation met one of the Cochrane EPOC Group criteria. Studies were excluded if they only reported the design or basic user acceptance of a PHR system without an assessment of its impact on individuals and/or their health care. The impacts were classified according to the six aims of 21st-century health care defined by the US Institute of Medicine.
Results: Searches were conducted in PubMed in December 2012. Out of 741 papers that met our initial search criteria, 31 were retained after title and abstract screening. After full paper review 5 studies were found to report original evidence of impact. Of these, three reported beneficial impacts on effectiveness, one on patient centredness, and one study reported impact on both aims. No harmful effects were reported.
Conclusions: Although this literature review did identify some evidenced benefits from the use of PHRs and systems, our main observation is that there are very few studies published that seek to formally evaluate impact. The majority of publications we screened documented designs or basic user acceptance. Further investment in evaluation is needed to inform the evolution of this field.
Knowledge Representation and Management: Towards an Integration of a Semantic Web in Daily Health Practice
Authors: Griffon N. , Charlet J. , Darmoni SJ. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objective: To summarize the best papers in the field of Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM).
Methods: A synopsis of the four selected articles for the IMIA Yearbook 2013 KRM section is provided, as well as highlights of current KRM trends, in particular, of the semantic web in daily health practice. The manual selection was performed in three stages: first a set of 3,106 articles, then a second set of 86 articles followed by a third set of 15 articles, and finally the last set of four chosen articles.
Results: Among the four selected articles (see Table 1), one focuses on knowledge engineering to prevent adverse drug events; the objective of the second is to propose mappings between clinical archetypes and SNOMED CT in the context of clinical practice; the third presents an ontology to create a question-answering system; the fourth describes a biomonitoring network based on semantic web technologies.
Conclusion: These four articles clearly indicate that the health semantic web has become a part of daily practice of health professionals since 2012. In the review of the second set of 86 articles, the same topics included in the previous IMIA yearbook remain active research fields: Knowledge extraction, automatic indexing, information retrieval, natural language processing, management of health terminologies and ontologies.
From Genome Sequencing to Bedside
Authors: Soualmia L. F. , Lecroq T. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives: To summarize excellent current research in the field of Bioinformatics and Translational Informatics with application in the health domain and evidence-based medicine.
Method: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2013, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of current and future activities in the field. Three steps of selection were performed by querying PubMed and Web of Science. A first set of 5,549 articles was refined into a second set of 1,272 articles from which 15 articles were retained for peer-review.
Results: The selection and evaluation process of this Yearbook's section on Bioinformatics and Translational Informatics yielded four excellent articles regarding the Human Genome and Medicine. Exploiting genomic data depends on having the appropriate reference annotation available. In the first article, the goal of the GENCODE Consortium is to produce and publish The GENCODE human reference gene set. As a result it is composed by merged manual and automatic annotations, which are frequently updated from public experimental databases. The quality of genome sequencing is platform-dependant. In the second article, a generic database independent from the sequencing technologies, Huvariome, can help to identify errors and inconsistencies in sequencing. To understand complex diseases of patients it will be of great importance to detect rare gene variants. This is the aim of the third study. Finally, in the last article, the plasma's DNA of healthy individual and patients suffering from cancer is compared.
Conclusions: The current research activities attest to the continuous convergence of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics for clinical practice. For instance, a direct use of high throughput sequencing technologies for patients could aid the diagnosis of complex diseases (such as cancer) without invasive surgery (such as biopsy) but only with blood analysis. However, ongoing genomic tests will generate massive amounts of data and will imply new trends in the near future: “Big Data” and smart health management.
A Short History of the Beginnings of Hospital Information Systems in Argentina
Authors: Yácubsohn V. 
Published: March 2018

Summary

Objectives
: To describe the development of early health information systems in Argentina and their impact on the development of professional societies in the discipline

Methods
: The first hospital information systems and health surveillance systems in Argentina are described and related to the rise of professional organizations for health informatics.

Results
: The early health information systems in Argentina are related to precursor developments in medical informatics.

Conclusions
: Argentina saw a number of hospital information systems developed starting in 1977, which had an important influence on the practice and experience in medical informatics in the country, and the participation of Argentine professionals in national, regional, and international activities in the field
Leitlinie: Sklerosierungsbehandlung der Varikose
Authors: Rabe E. , Gerlach H. , Breu F. X. , Guggenbichler S. , Stücker M. , Pannier F. 
Published: March 2018

Diese Leitlinie wurde im Auftrag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phlebologie (DGP) ausgearbeitet, vom Vorstand und im wissenschaftlichen Beirat der DGP am 15.06.2001 verabschiedet, am 26.09.2007 sowie im Mai 2012 novelliert und ersetzt die Vorversion vom November 2007. Diese Leitlinie berücksichtigt den aktuellen Stand der Literatur, aber nicht die in jedem Fall unterschiedlichen Zulassungsbestimmungen für die verschiedenen Pharmaka.Leitlinien sind systematisch erarbeitete Empfehlungen, um den Arzt in Klinik und Praxis bei Entscheidungen über eine angemessene Versorgung des Patienten im Rahmen spezi-fischer klinischer Umstände zu unterstützen. Leitlinien gelten für Standardsituationen und berücksichtigen die aktuellen, zu den entspre-chenden Fragestellungen zur Verfügung stehenden wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Leitlinien bedürfen der ständigen Überprüfung und eventuell der Änderung auf dem Boden des wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisstandes und der Praktikabilität in der täglichen Praxis. Durch die Leitlinien soll die Methodenfreiheit des Arztes nicht eingeschränkt werden. Ihre Beachtung garantiert nicht in jedem Fall den diagnostischen und therapeutischen Erfolg. Leitlinien erheben keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit. Die Entscheidung über die Angemessenheit der zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen trifft der Arzt unter Berücksichtigung der individuellen Problematik.
Serious Games in Health Care: a Survey
Authors: Geissbuhler A. , Gaudet-Blavignac C. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo present an overview of existing serious games in healthcare designed for patients, and the evaluation of their effects. Such games, aiming to help patients better understand their condi- tion or treatment, to foster healthy behaviors, or even to participate in therapies, are expected to grow in parallel with the importance of the videogaming industry.References were searched in Medline and through recursive browsing of their citations.21 papers were identified and analyzed. Serious games are used to increase knowledge and control, foster preventive behaviors, or can be used in therapies. Their positive effects on improved patient understanding, adherence, and engagement, although documented mostly in preliminary studies, calls for the development and more thorough evaluation of these tools.
A Biomedical Informatics Perspective on Human Factors:
Authors: Meyer R. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Human Factors
Published: March 2018

Summaryto select and summarize excellent research published during 2011 in the study of human factors in bio-medical informatics.we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in this field, from a wide selection of worldwide research papers published during 2011.We selected four papers. The first one presents an international effort aiming to design a guideline for good evaluation practice in health informatics (GEP-HI) [2]. The second reviews medical errors taxonomies from a human factor perspective [3]. The third one advocates the need to systematically perform a deep evaluation process after all healthcare information technologies project deployment [4]. The fourth one explores exit strategies performed by clinician using health record system and how/why we need to anticipate them [5].This papers selection will provide our readers with valuable evidences on past and existing research in the specific field of human factors in healthcare informatics. It can also act as a foundation for stakeholders in the healthcare industry that emphasize the significance of human factors and ergonomics in designing healthcare information systems of the future.
Health Information Systems
Authors: Bréant C. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health Information Systems
Published: March 2018

SummarySummarize excellent current research in the field of Health Information Systems.Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2012.Three papers from international peer reviewed journals have been selected for the section on health information systems.The selected articles illustrate current research regarding health IT impacts and evaluation and the latest developments in health information exchange.
A Medical Informatics Perspective on Decision Support Systems
Authors: Ruch P. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Decision Support
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo summarize current excellent research in the field of computer-based decision support systems in health and healthcare.We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2012, from which we attempt to draft a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in the field.While the state of the research in the field of medical decision support systems is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous studies, it is possible to identify fundamental aspects of the fields, e.g.	Decision Support Systems for Computerized Provider Order Entry, both for physicians and pharmacists, as well as more specific developments such as instruments to improve processing of data related to Clinical Trials and applications to capture family health history.The best paper selection of articles on decision support shows examples of excellent research on methods concerning original development as well as quality assurance of previously reported studies. This selected set of scientific investigations clearly question the way decision support systems are deployed in clinical environments as these systems seem to have little impact on patient safety and even could harm the patient. Furthermore, while significant research efforts are invested into translational & “omics” medicine, it is interesting to observe that simple data capture applications can reasonably lead to positive changes in healthcare.
Update Breast Cancer 2018 (Part 1) – Primary Breast Cancer and Biomarkers
Authors: Taran Florin-Andrei , Schneeweiss Andreas , Lux Michael , Janni Wolfgang , Hartkopf Andreas , Nabieva Naiba , Overkamp Friedrich , Kolberg Hans-Christian , Hadji Peyman , Tesch Hans , Wöckel Achim , Ettl Johannes , Lüftner Diana , Wallwiener Markus , Müller Volkmar , Beckmann Matthias , Belleville Erik , Wallwiener Diethelm , Brucker Sara , Fasching Peter , Fehm Tanja , Schütz Florian 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis summary provides an overview of how new therapies or new aspects of established therapies relate to the latest findings. Neoadjuvant therapy, local therapy, new aspects of systemic therapy, and prognostic and predictive factors are presented. In the neoadjuvant setting, the association between pathological complete response (pCR) and prognosis is still of interest as is the identification of new molecular predictors for new therapies such as CDK4/6 inhibitors. As regards surgical treatment, the target is still to reduce the aggressiveness of surgery. To achieve this, a better understanding particularly of ductal carcinoma in situ is required. With regard to systemic therapy, more data on the best combinations and therapy sequences for existing therapies is available. Finally, the use of prognostic and predictive factors may help to avoid overtreatment and ensure that patients only receive therapies which have been shown to be effective for their specific condition and have fewer side effects.
Euphemism as a discursive strategy in US local and state politics
Authors: Crespo-Fernández Eliecer 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Euphemism is a discursive strategy that politicians use to approach unsettling, embarrassing, or distasteful, i.e. taboo, topics without appearing inconsiderate to people’s concerns. Following a critical discourse-analytic approach to political language, this paper discusses the communicative functions that euphemism performs in the discourse of local and state politicians from New Jersey (USA) in a sample of language data excerpted from The Star-Ledger, the state’s largest newspaper. The analysis reveals that (metaphorical and non-metaphorical) euphemism constitutes a major strategy of self-protection and positive self-presentation for legislators which allows them – mostly by understatement, periphrasis, and metaphor – first, to refer to socially disadvantaged groups or address delicate subjects without sounding insensitive; second, to criticize their political opponents in a socially acceptable way; and third, to purposely conceal from the public unsettling or controversial topics.