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Education, Practice, and Research in Nursing Terminology: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities
Authors: Cho I. , Park H.-A. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives To provide an overview of nursing terminology education, research, and clinical use, to identify and analyze any gaps therein, and to propose ways to close those gaps.
Methods We conducted an extensive Internet and literature search to establish the current status of nursing terminology education, research, and clinical use. We also surveyed 40 experts in nursing terminology from 15 countries to obtain more detailed information on nursing terminology education and clinical use.
Results We found that there are gaps in nursing terminology education, research, and use, with the area of research being the most advanced. Nursing terminology is not taught widely in either informatics or nursing programs. Where it is taught, it constitutes only up to several hours of an informatics or nursing course. Research into nursing terminology has been very active, focusing mainly on the development and evaluation/validation of nursing terminology, using reference terminology models, and mapping between these and nursing terminologies. However, little research has been carried out on the use of nursing terminologies in clinical information systems. In addition, there are very few systems in which a standardized nursing terminology has been implemented.
Conclusion In order to close the gaps in nursing terminology education, research, and clinical use, qualified personnel are required to educate potential users as to the importance of terminology-based information systems for semantic interoperability. In addition, more research is required into the implementation of nursing terminologies in information systems, and we must demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of nursing terminology-based information systems.
Education and Consumer Informatics
Authors: Boyer C. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Education and Consumer Informatics
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives This article presents the 2009 selection of the best papers presenting the advancements in the field of Education and Consumer Informatics with emphasis on quality online health information and its uses in the medical field.
Method Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA yearbook 2009.
Results Six papers from international peer reviewed journals where selected for this section.
Conclusion The selection of articles gives an overview of the currently growing need for quality online health information and demonstrates the integration of online health information in medical care as well as the importance of continuing education through online training programs.
Ten Thousand Views of Bioinformatics: A Bibliome Perspective
Authors: Kohane I. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objective Summarize the current state bioinformatics research from the published literature in 2008.
Methods The entire corpus of publications indexed by the National Library of Medicine in the PubMed repository was reviewed for articles tagged as belonging to the discipline of bioinformatics by Medical Subject Heading or by term in the title or abstract of the article. Selected summary statistics of this corpus were then used to motivate additional exploration.
Results Over ten thousand articles published in 2008 populated the bioinformatics corpus. Significantly, there were at least as many publications in genomics and genetics that used computational techniques but that were not identified as bioinformatics research. Genomics and proteomics continued to be the leading application domains of bioinformatics research but despite the proliferation of human studies, the genes most studied in the corpus were from yeast rather than the human organism. The growth in the genomic studies of human disease was accompanied by a growing critical literature regarding the methods, results and impact of these studies. Concurrently, the availability of full genome sequences at commodity prices has increased the computational challenges of human studies by several orders of magnitude. Further concerns were raised about the consequences of public disclosure of comprehensive or even aggregate genomic data.
Conclusion The impressive size of the bioinformatics bibliome is easily dwarfed by the challenges generated by the continued increased growth of high-throughput biological data sets. The demand for bioinformatics expertise and tools is therefore likely to continue to increase, at least in the near term.
Spreading Knowledge in Medical Informatics: the Contribution of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Authors: Luna D. , Otero P. , Baum A. , Borbolla D. , de Quiros F. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryMedical Informatics (MI) is an emerging discipline with a high need of trained and skillful professionals.
Objective To describe the educational experience of the Department of Health Informatics of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.
Methods A descriptive study of the development of the Medical Informatics Residency Program (MIRP) and the e-learning courses related to medical informatics.
Results A four-year MIRP with 15 rotations was started in 2000, and was awarded national educational accreditation. Eight residents have been fully trained and their main academic contributions are shown in this study.The e-learning courses related to medical informatics (Healthcare Management, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Information Retrieval, Computer Literacy started, 10x10 Spanish version and HL7 introductory course) started in 2006 and were followed by more than 2266 students from all over the world, with an increase trend in foreign students.
Conclusions These educational activities have produced skilled human resources for the development and maintenance of the health informatics projects at our Hospital. In parallel, the number of students trained by e-learning continues to increase, demonstrating the worldwide need of knowledge in this field.
Health Information Systems Training for a Countrywide Implementation in Uruguay
Authors: Vero A. , Bessonart L. , Barbiel A. , Ferla M. , Margolis A. 
Published: March 2018

Summary
Objectives Health Information systems training is one of the bottlenecks in clinical systems implementation. In this article, a strategy to massively create and train interdisciplinary coordinating teams is described for a project in Uruguay at FEMI, a non-academic setting which includes 23 health care institutions across the country and a tertiary referral center in Montevideo.
Methods A series of educational activities were designed for the local coordinating teams. They included both onsite and online formats, site visits, integrated with some of the project tasks.
Results In total, 128 professionals from all the Institutions participated in one or more of the training sessions (onsite and online) and 87 of them accomplished one of the forms of training.
Conclusions Massive basic health informatics training was possible in Uruguay through collaboration with academic institutions at the country and regional level. Next steps include an active involvement of nurses in the educational events and planning of massive training of end users.
A Medical Informatics Perspective on Health Informatics 3.0
Authors: Ruch P. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health Informatics 3.0
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web.We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field.while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous studies, it is possible to identify significant clusters. While the most salient challenge and obsessional target of the semantic web remains its ambition to simply interconnect all available information, it is interesting to observe the developments of complementary research fields such as information sciences and text analytics. The combined expression power and virtually unlimited data aggregation skills of Web 3.0 technologies make it a disruptive instrument to discover new biomedical knowledge. In parallel, such an unprecedented situation creates new threats for patients participating in large-scale genetic studies as Wjst demonstrate how various data set can be coupled to re-identify anonymous genetic information.The best paper selection of articles on decision support shows examples of excellent research on methods concerning original development of core semantic web techniques as well as transdisciplinary achievements as exemplified with literature-based analytics. This selected set of scientific investigations also demonstrates the needs for computerized applications to transform the biomedical data overflow into more operational clinical knowledge with potential threats for confidentiality directly associated with such advances. Altogether these papers support the idea that more elaborated computer tools, likely to combine heterogeneous text and data contents should soon emerge for the benefit of both experimentalists and hopefully clinicians.
Can ICTs Contribute to the Efficiency and Provide Equitable Access to the Health Care System in Sub-Saharan Africa? The Mali Experience
Authors: Anneb A. , Fieschi M. , Geissbuhlera A. , Bagayokoa C. O. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryThe aim of this study is to demonstrate from actual projects that ICT can contribute to the balance of health systems in developing countries and to equitable access to human resources and quality health care service. Our study is focused on two essential elements which are: i) Capacity building and support of health professionals, especially those in isolated areas using telemedicine tools; ii) Strengthening of hospital information systems by taking advantage of full potential offered by open-source software.Our research was performed on the activities carried out in Mali and in part through the RAFT (Réseau en Afrique Francophone pour la Télémédecine) Network. We focused mainly on the activities of e-learning, telemedicine, and hospital information systems. These include the use of platforms that work with low Internet connection bandwidth. With regard to information systems, our strategy is mainly focused on the improvement and implementation of opensource tools.Several telemedicine application projects were reviewed including continuing online medical education and the support of isolated health professionals through the usage of innovative tools. This review covers the RAFT project for continuing medical education in French-speaking Africa, the tele-radiology project in Mali, the “EQUI-ResHuS” project for equal access to health over ICT in Mali, The “Pact-e.Santé” project for community health workers in Mali.We also detailed a large-scale experience of an open-source hospital information system implemented in Mali: “Cinz@n”.We report on successful experiences in the field of telemedicine and on the evaluation by the end-users of the Cinz@n project, a pilot hospital information system in Mali. These reflect the potential of healthcare-ICT for Sub-Saharan African countries.
Reporting Observational Studies of the Use of Information Technology in the Clinical Consultation
Authors: Pearce C. , Kumarapeli P. , Stavropoulou C. , Kushniruk A. , Sheikh A. , Shachak A. , Mendis K. , de Lusignan S. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo develop a classification system to improve the reporting of observational studies of the use of information technology (IT) in clinical consultations.Literature review, workshops, and development of a position statement. We grouped the important aspects for consistent reporting into a “faceted classification”; the components relevant to a particular study to be used independently.The eightfacetsof ourclassification are: (1) Theoretical and methodological approach: e.g. dramaturgical, cognitive; (2) Data collection: Type and method of observation; (3) Room layout and environment: How this affects interaction between clinician, patient and computer. (4) Initiation and Interaction: Who starts the consultation, and how the participants interact; (5) Information and knowledge utilisation: What sources of information or decision support are used or provided; (6) Timing and type of consultation variables: Standard descriptors that can be used to allow comparison of duration and description of continuous activities (e.g. speech, eye contact) and episodic ones, such as prescribing; (7) Post-consultation impact measures: Satisfaction surveys and health economic assessment based on the perceived quality of the clinician-patient interaction; and (8) Data capture, storage, and export formats: How to archive and curate data to facilitate further analysis.Adoption of this classification should make it easier to interpret research findings and facilitate the synthesis of evidence across studies. Those engaged in IT-consultation research shouldconsider adopting this reporting guide.
Health and Clinical Management – From the Pen and Paper to the Digital Era
Authors: Kubias D. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health and Clinical Management
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo present some of the recent best papers in the field of health and clinical management.Synopsis of the best articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011.Of the five selected articles, some confirm the benefits of processing standardized data, others demonstrate the value of adapting the healthcare environment with new technological devices to improve patient safety and healthcare professionals time-efficiency. Other fields are also embraced: the possibilities offered by today’s communication technology open doors largely for telemedicine and remote patient monitoring.In constant evolution, the healthcare environment has multiple challenges to meet: cost containment, increase and ageing of the population, enormous quantities of data and quickly evloving knowledge, complex and multi-disciplinary approaches for healthcare, need for safer care, to mention but a few. While health IT has already helped healthcare in facing these challenges, there still is much more that could be done.
Hospital and Health Information Systems – Current Perspectives
Authors: Ball M. , Boyer C. , Elkin P. L. , Ishikawa K. , Jaffe C. , March A. , Marin H. , Mykkänen J. , Rienhoff O. , Silva J. , Sittig D. F. , Talmon J. , Lovis C. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo celebrate over 30 years of health information systems’ (HIS) evolution by bringing together pioneers in the field, members of the next generation of leaders, and government officials from several developing nations in Africa to discuss the past, present, and future of HISs.Participants gathered in Le Franschhoek, South Africa for a 2 ½ day working conference consisting of scientific presentations followed by several concurrent breakout sessions. A small writing group prepared draft statements representing their positions on various topics of discussion which were circulated and revised by the entire group.Many new tools, techniques and technologies were described and discussed in great detail. Interestingly, all of the key themes identified in the first HIS meeting held over 30 years ago are still of vital importance today: Patient Centered design, Clinical User Support, Real-time Education, Human-computer Factors and Measuring Clinical User Performance, Meaningful use.As we continue to work to develop next-generation HISs, we must remember the lessons of the past as we strive to develop the solutions for tomorrow.
Health Information Systems Is our Focus Correct?
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 2011.Five papers from international peer reviewed journals have been selected for the section on health information systems.The selected articles illustrate that strategic, organizational and human aspects require specific attention in order to increase HIS adoption, and to demonstrate value in supporting the needs of clinicians and their patients.
Decision Support: Time for Collaboration
Authors: Guardia A. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Decision Support
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo summarize current outstanding research in the field of decision support.A selection of excellent research articles published in 2010 in the field of computerized clinical decision support systems.This selection of articles shows that deci- sion support systems (DSS) are getting better integrated into the electronic health record systems (EHR) and into the clinician’s workflow. As a result, there is a better collaboration between physicians and DSS, which improves the care of patients.
Key Concepts to Assess the Readiness of Data for International Research: Data Quality, Lineage and Provenance, Extraction and Processing Errors, Traceability, and Curation
Authors: de Lusignan S. , Liaw S.-T. , Krause P. , Curcin V. , Vicente M. , Michalakidis G. , Agreus L. , Leysen P. , Shaw N. , Mendis K. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo define the key concepts which inform whether a system for collecting, aggregating and processing routine clinical data for research is fit for purpose.Literature review and shared experiential learning from research using routinely collected data. We excluded socio-cultural issues, and privacy and security issues as our focus was to explore linking clinical data.Six key concepts describe data: (1) Data quality: the core Overarching concept – Are these data fit for purpose? (2) Data provenance: defined as how data came to be; incorporating the concepts of lineage and pedigree. Mapping this process requires metadata. New variables derived during data analysis have their own provenance. (3) Data extraction errors and (4) Data processing errors, which are the responsibility of the investigator extracting the data but need quantifying. (5) Traceability: the capability to identify the origins of any data cell within the final analysis table essential for good governance, and almost impossible without a formal system of metadata; and (6) Curation: storing data and look-up tables in a way that allows future researchers to carry out further research or review earlier findings.There are common distinct steps in processing data; the quality of any metadata may be predictive of the quality of the process. Outputs based on routine data should include a review of the process from data origin to curation and publish information about their data provenance and processing method.
Knowledge Representation and Management: Benefits and Challenges of the Semantic Web for the Fields of KRM and NLP
Authors: Rassinoux A.-M. ,   Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Knowledge Representation and Management
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo summarize excellent current research in the field of knowledge representation and management (KRM).A synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011 is provided and an attempt to highlight the current trends in the field is sketched.This last decade, with the extension of the text-based web towards a semantic-structured web, NLP techniques have experienced a renewed interest in knowledge extraction. This trend is corroborated through the five papers selected for the KRM section of the Yearbook 2011. They all depict outstanding studies that exploit NLP technologies whenever possible in order to accurately extract meaningful information from various biomedical textual sources.Bringing semantic structure to the meaningful content of textual web pages affords the user with cooperative sharing and intelligent finding of electronic data. As exemplified by the best paper selection, more and more advanced biomedical applications aim at exploiting the meaningful richness of free-text documents in order to generate semantic metadata and recently to learn and populate domain ontologies. These later are becoming a key piece as they allow portraying the semantics of the Semantic Web content. Maintaining their consistency with documents and semantic annotations that refer to them is a crucial challenge of the Semantic Web for the coming years.
Trends and Developments in Bioinformatics in 2010: Prospects and Perspectives
Authors: Alekseyenko A. V. , Aphinyanaphongs Y. , Brown S. , Fenyo D. , Fu L. , Shen S. , Statnikov A. , Wang J. , Aliferis C. F. 
Published: March 2018

SummaryTo survey major developments and trends in the field of Bioinformatics in 2010 and their relationships to those of previous years, with emphasis on long-term trends, on best practices, on quality of the science of informatics, and on quality of science as a function of informatics.A critical review of articles in the literature of Bioinformatics over the past year.Our main results suggest that Bioinformatics continues to be a major catalyst for progress in Biology and Translational Medicine, as a consequence of new assaying technologies, most predominantly Next Generation Sequencing, which are changing the landscape of modern biological and medical research. These assays critically depend on bioinformatics and have led to quick growth of corresponding informatics methods development. Clinical-grade molecular signatures are proliferating at a rapid rate. However, a highly publicized incident at a prominent university showed that deficiencies in informatics methods can lead to catastrophic consequences for important scientific projects. Developing evidence-driven protocols and best practices is greatly needed given how serious are the implications for the quality of translational and basic science.Several exciting new methods have appeared over the past 18 months, that open new roads for progress in bioinformatics methods and their impact in biomedicine. At the same time, the range of open problems of great significance is extensive, ensuring the vitality of the field for many years to come.
Geschmacksstörung (Dysgeusie) und Radioiodtherapie des Schilddrüsenkarzinoms
Authors: Drzezga Alexander , Dietlein Markus 
Published: March 2018

ZusammenfassungGeschmacksstörungen (Hypo-, Dysgeusie) nach Radioiodtherapie des Schilddrüsenkarzinoms stellen in der Abgrenzung zur Xerostomie eine separate Komorbidität dar. Bei der Hypogeusie handelt es sich um die Folge einer Sialadenitis kleiner muköser Speicheldrüsen – der Geschmacksdrüsen – in Nachbarschaft zu den Geschmacksknospen. Klinisch relevant werden die Hypo- und Dysgeusie zumeist durch Wechselwirkungen mit einer Begleitmedikation, zuvorderst Psychopharmaka und Tranquilizer. Sofern medizinisch vertretbar, sollten bei Dysgeusie nebenwirkungsbehaftete Medikamente ersetzt werden. Weitere Noxen sollten eliminiert werden (Nikotinkarenz, Wechsel der Zahnpflegeprodukte). Mit Bezug auf eine Radioiodtherapie mit relativer Indikation sollte die Patientenaufklärung mögliche Behandlungsalternativen benennen. Die Risikoaufklärung sollte die möglichen klinischen Konsequenzen aus einer Sialadenitis (Xerostomie, Dysgeusie, Kariesanfälligkeit, trockenes Auge, Tränenträufeln durch Obstruktion des Tränenkanals) komplett beschreiben. Die Möglichkeiten der 131I-Aktivitätsreduktion sollten risikoadaptiert genutzt werden. Ob darüber hinaus die Anwendung von rhTSH zur Risikominimierung des Dysgeusie hilfreich ist, bleibt aufgrund heterogener Beobachtungsdaten unklar. Der Nuklearmediziner sollte um die multifaktoriellen Zusammenhänge in der Genese einer Dysgeusie wissen, falls sich der Patient nach Radioiodtherapie ratsuchend an den Nuklearmediziner wendet.