"Medical Informatics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.
| Descriptor ID |
D008490
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| MeSH Number(s) |
L01.313.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Medical Informatics- Medical Informatics
- Health Informatics
- Informatics, Health
- Informatics, Medical
Medical Computer Science- Medical Computer Science
- Computer Science, Medical
- Medical Computer Sciences
- Science, Medical Computer
Health Information Technology- Health Information Technology
- Health Information Technologies
- Information Technology, Health
- Technology, Health Information
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medical Informatics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Medical Informatics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medical Informatics" by people in Profiles.
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A Guideline for Open-Source Tools to Make Medical Imaging Data Ready for Artificial Intelligence Applications: A Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Survey. J Imaging Inform Med. 2024 Oct; 37(5):2015-2024.
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Transfer Learning for Mortality Prediction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Low-Resolution Histopathology Slide Snapshots. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25; 310:735-739.
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Health Information Technology Use among Chronic Disease Patients: An Analysis of the United States Health Information National Trends Survey. Appl Clin Inform. 2022 05; 13(3):752-766.
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Early experience of the quality improvement award program in federally funded health centers. Health Serv Res. 2022 10; 57(5):1070-1076.
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Investigating Health Information Technology Usage by Sociodemographic Subpopulations to Increase Community Engagement in Healthcare: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2021; 2021:1029-1038.
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Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2021 08; 5:881-896.
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Machine Learning and Clinical Informatics for Improving HIV Care Continuum Outcomes. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2021 06; 18(3):229-236.
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Using informatics to improve cancer surveillance. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 07 01; 27(9):1488-1495.
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Using big data in pediatric oncology: Current applications and future directions. Semin Oncol. 2020 02; 47(1):56-64.
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Obtaining Knowledge in Pathology Reports Through a Natural Language Processing Approach With Classification, Named-Entity Recognition, and Relation-Extraction Heuristics. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2019 08; 3:1-8.