JMIR Medical Informatics

Clinical informatics, decision support for health professionals, electronic health records, and eHealth infrastructures.

Editor-in-Chief:

Christian Lovis, MD, MPH, FACMI, Division of Medical Information Sciences, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland


Impact Factor 3.1 CiteScore 7.9

JMIR Medical Informatics (JMI, ISSN 2291-9694, Journal Impact Factor™ 3.1 (Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2023)) (Editor-in-chief: Christian Lovis, MD, MPH, FACMI) is an open-access PubMed/SCIE-indexed journal that focuses on the challenges and impacts of clinical informatics, digitalization of care processes, clinical and health data pipelines from acquisition to reuse, including semantics, natural language processing, natural interactions, meaningful analytics and decision support, electronic health records, infrastructures, implementation, and evaluation (see Focus and Scope).

JMIR Medical Informatics adheres to rigorous quality standards, involving a rapid and thorough peer-review process, professional copyediting, and professional production of PDF, XHTML, and XML proofs. The journal is indexed in MEDLINEPubMed, PubMed Central, DOAJ, Scopus, and SCIE (Clarivate)

With a CiteScore of 7.9, JMIR Medical Informatics ranks in the 78th percentile (#30 of 138) and the 77th percentile (#14 of 59) as a Q1 journal in the fields of Health Informatics and Health Information Management, according to Scopus data.

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Natural Language Processing

Obtaining and describing the semiology efficiently and classifying seizures types correctly are crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Nevertheless, there exists an inadequacy in related informatics resources and decision-support tools.

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Viewpoints on and Experiences with Digital Technologies in Health

Computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) enhance patient care through real-time, evidence-based guidance for health care professionals. Despite this, the effective implementation of these systems for health services presents multifaceted challenges, leading to inappropriate use and abandonment over the course of time. Using the Non-Adoption, Abandonment, Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) framework, this qualitative study examined CDSS adoption in a metropolitan health service, identifying determinants across implementation stages to optimize CDSS integration into health care practice.

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Natural Language Processing

Named entity recognition (NER) models are essential for extracting structured information from unstructured medical texts by identifying entities such as diseases, treatments, and conditions, enhancing clinical decision-making and research. Innovations in machine learning, particularly those involving Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers (BERT)–based deep learning and large language models, have significantly advanced NER capabilities. However, their performance varies across medical datasets due to the complexity and diversity of medical terminology. Previous studies have often focused on overall performance, neglecting specific challenges in medical contexts and the impact of macrofactors like lexical composition on prediction accuracy. These gaps hinder the development of optimized NER models for medical applications.

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Implementation Report

Medical errors are becoming a major problem for health care providers and those who design health policies. These errors cause patients’ illnesses to worsen over time and can make recovery impossible. For the benefit of patients and the welfare of health care providers, a decrease in these errors is required to maintain safe, high-quality patient care.

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Reviews in Medical Informatics

Electronic health records (EHRs) commonly contain patient addresses that provide valuable data for geocoding and spatial analysis, enabling more comprehensive descriptions of individual patients for clinical purposes. Despite the widespread use of EHRs in clinical decision support and interventions, no systematic review has examined the extent to which spatial analysis is used to characterize patient phenotypes.

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Standards and Interoperability

To advance research with clinical data, it is essential to make access to the available data as fast and easy as possible for researchers, which is especially challenging for data from different source systems within and across institutions. Over the years, many research repositories and data standards have been created. One of these is the FHIR standard, used by the German Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) to harmonize and standardize data across university hospitals in Germany. One of the first steps to make this data available is to allow researchers to create feasibility queries to determine the data availability for a specific research question. Given the heterogeneity of different query languages to access different data across and even within standards such as FHIR (e.g., CQL and FHIR Search), creating an intermediate query syntax for feasibility queries reduces the complexity of query translation and improves interoperability across different research repositories and query languages.

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Reviews in Medical Informatics

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain large amounts of detailed clinical information. Using chart review to identify conditions within large quantities of EMRs can be time-consuming and inefficient. EMR-based phenotyping utilizing machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms is a continually developing area of study that holds potential for numerous mental health disorders.

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Quality Improvement

Information control is a promising approach for managing surgical specimens. However, there is limited research evidence on surgical near misses. This is particularly true in the closed loop of information control for each link.

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Standards and Interoperability

The increasing demand for personal health record (PHR) systems is driven by individuals’ desire to actively manage their healthcare. However, the limited functionality of current PHR systems has affected users’ willingness to adopt them, leading to lower-than-expected usage rates. The HL7 Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) was proposed to address this issue, outlining all possible functionalities in PHR systems. Although the PHR-S FM provides a comprehensive theoretical framework, its practical effectiveness and applicability have not been fully explored.

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Health Information Exchange

Over 200 health information exchanges (HIEs) are currently operational in Japan. The feature for remote on-demand viewing, or searching for aggregated patient health data from multiple institutions is the most common. However, the usage of this feature by individual users and institutions remains unknown.

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Reviews in Medical Informatics

Large language models (LLMs) have substantially advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities but often struggle with knowledge-driven tasks in specialized domains such as biomedicine. Integrating biomedical knowledge sources such as SNOMED CT into LLMs may enhance their performance on biomedical tasks. However, the methodologies and effectiveness of incorporating SNOMED CT into LLMs have not been systematically reviewed.

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AI Language Models in Health Care

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems by Google have recently been updated from Bard to Gemini and Gemini Advanced as of December 2023. Gemini is a basic, free-to-use model after a user’s login, while Gemini Advanced operates on a more advanced model requiring a fee-based subscription. These systems have the potential to enhance medical diagnostics. However, the impact of these updates on comprehensive diagnostic accuracy remains unknown.

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