DOI: 10.1055/s-00034612

Yearbook of Medical Informatics

Issue 01 · Volume 30 · August 2021 DOI: 10.1055/s-011-51612

Cover

Table of Contents

President's Statement

Obituary

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Koch, Sabine; Shires, David; Skiba, Diane; Ball, Marion; van Bemmel, Jan H.: Hans Peterson (1928 – 2021) – Forever in Our Hearts, Always in Our Thoughts

Editorial

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Soualmia, Lina F.; Hollis, Kate Fultz; Mougin, Fleur; Séroussi, Brigitte: Health Data, Information, and Knowledge Sharing for Addressing the COVID-19

IAHSI Paper

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Haux, Reinhold; Ball, Marion J.; Hersh, William R.; Huesing, Elaine; Kimura, Michio; Koch, Sabine; Martin-Sanchez, Fernando; Otero, Paula: The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI): 2020 Report

WHO Paper

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Koch, Sabine; Hersh, William R.; Bellazzi, Riccardo; Leong, Tze Yun; Yedaly, Moctar; Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb: Digital Health during COVID-19: Informatics Dialogue with the World Health Organization

Keynote

017

Special Section: Managing Pandemics with Health Informatics

Survey

026
Tilahun, Binyam; Gashu, Kassahun Dessie; Mekonnen, Zeleke Abebaw; Endehabtu, Berhanu Fikadie; Angaw, Dessie Abebaw: Mapping the Role of Digital Health Technologies in Prevention and Control of COVID-19 Pandemic: Review of the Literature

Working Group Contributions

038
Kobayashi, Shinji; Falcón, Luis; Fraser, Hamish; Braa, Jørn; Amarakoon, Pamod; Marcelo, Alvin; Paton, Chris: Using Open Source, Open Data, and Civic Technology to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic and Infodemic
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Liaw, Siaw-Teng; Kuziemsky, Craig; Schreiber, Richard; Jonnagaddala, Jitendra; Liyanage, Harshana; Chittalia, Aliasgar; Bahniwal, Ravninder; He, Jennifer W.; Ryan, Bridget L.; Lizotte, Daniel J.; Kueper, Jacqueline K.; Terry, Amanda L.; de Lusignan, Simon: Primary Care Informatics Response to Covid-19 Pandemic: Adaptation, Progress, and Lessons from Four Countries with High ICT Development
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Magrabi, Farah; Ammenwerth, Elske; Craven, Catherine K.; Cresswell, Kathrin; De Keizer, Nicolet F.; Medlock, Stephanie K.; Scott, Philip J.; Wong, Zoie Shui-Yee; Georgiou, Andrew: Managing Pandemic Responses with Health Informatics – Challenges for Assessing Digital Health Technologies
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Topaz, Max; Peltonen, Laura-Maria; Mitchell, James; Alhuwail, Dari; Barakati, Seyedeh-Samin; Lewis, Adrienne; Moen, Hans; Veeranki, Sai Pavan Kumar; Block, Lori; Risling, Tracie; Ronquillo, Charlene: How to Improve Information Technology to Support Healthcare to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic: an International Survey with Health Informatics Experts

Synopsis

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Dixon, Brian E.; Holmes, John H.; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Managing Pandemics with Health Informatics: Managing Pandemics with Health Informatics

Best Paper Selection

Section 1: Health Information Management

Survey

Synopsis

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Bloomrosen, Meryl; Berner, Eta S.; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health Information Management: Findings from the 2021 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

Best Paper Selection

Section 2: Human Factors and Organizational Issues

Survey

Synopsis

100
Senathirajah, Yalini; Hribar, Michelle; Section Editors of the IMIA Yearbook Section on Human Factors and Organizational Issues: Human Factors and Organizational Issues Section Synopsis IMIA Yearbook 2021

Best Paper Selection

Section 3: Clinical Information Systems

Survey

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Reeves, J. Jeffery; Pageler, Natalie M.; Wick, Elizabeth C.; Melton, Genevieve B.; Tan, Yu-Heng Gamaliel; Clay, Brian J.; Longhurst, Christopher A.: The Clinical Information Systems Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Working Group Contribution

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Basu, Arindam; Kuziemsky, Craig; de Araújo Novaes, Magdala; Kleber, Araujo; Sales, Fernando; Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb; Flórez-Arango, José F.; Gogia, Shashi B.; Ho, Kendall; Hunter, Inga; Iyengar, Sriram; John, Oommen; John, Sheila; Kulatunga, Gumindu; Rajput, Vije Kumar; Ranatunga, Prasad; Udayasankaran, Jai Ganesh: Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response

Synopsis

134
Hackl, W. O.; Hoerbst, A.; Section Editors of the IMIA Yearbook Section on Clinical Information Systems: Clinical Information Systems Research in the Pandemic Year 2020

Best Paper Selection

Section 4: Sensor, Signal and Imaging Informatics

Working Group Contribution

Synopsis

150
Hsu, William; Baumgartner, Christian; Deserno, Thomas M.; Section Editors of the IMIA Yearbook Section on Sensors, Signals, and Imaging Informatics: Notable Papers and New Directions in Sensors, Signals, and Imaging Informatics

Best Paper Selection

Section 5: Decision Support

Survey

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Taber, Peter; Radloff, Christina; Del Fiol, Guilherme; Staes, Catherine; Kawamoto, Kensaku: New Standards for Clinical Decision Support: A Survey of The State of Implementation

Synopsis

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Borbolla, Damian; Ficheur, Grégoire; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Decision Support: Clinical Decision Support Systems and Computerized Provider Order Entry: Contributions from 2020

Best Paper Selection

Section 6: Knowledge Representation and Management

Survey

Synopsis

185
Dhombres, Ferdinand; Charlet, Jean; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Knowledge Representation and Management: Knowledge Representation and Management: Interest in New Solutions for Ontology Curation

Best Paper Selection

Section 7: Consumer Health Informatics and Education

Survey

191
Dingler, Tilman; Kwasnicka, Dominika; Wei, Jing; Gong, Enying; Oldenburg, Brian: The Use and Promise of Conversational Agents in Digital Health

Working Group Contribution

200
Gabarron, Elia; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Grainger, Rebecca; Denecke, Kerstin: Role of Participatory Health Informatics in Detecting and Managing Pandemics: Literature Review

Synopsis

210
Staccini, Pascal; Lau, Annie Y. S.; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Consumer Health Informatics: Consumer Informatics and COVID-19 Pandemics: Challenges and Opportunities for Research

Best Paper Selection

Section 8: Bioinformatics and Translational Informatics

Survey

219

Section 9: Clinical Research Informatics

Survey

Synopsis

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Daniel, Christel; Bellamine, Ali; Kalra, Dipak; Section Editors of the IMIA Yearbook Section on Clinical Research Informatics: Key Contributions in Clinical Research Informatics

Best Paper Selection

Section 10: Natural Language Processing

Survey

Working Group Contribution

Synopsis

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Grabar, Natalia; Grouin, Cyril; Section Editors of the IMIA Yearbook Section on Clinical Natural Language Processing: Year 2020 (with COVID): Observation of Scientific Literature on Clinical Natural Language Processing

Best Paper Selection

Section 11: Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics

Working Group Contributions

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Borycki, Elizabeth M.; Kushniruk, Andre W.; Kletke, Ryan; Vimarlund, Vivian; Senathirajah, Yalini; Quintana, Yuri: Enhancing Safety During a Pandemic Using Virtual Care Remote Monitoring Technologies and UML Modeling
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Indraratna, Praveen; Biswas, Uzzal; Yu, Jennifer; Schreier, Guenter; Ooi, Sze-Yuan; Lovell, Nigel H.; Redmond, Stephen J.: Trials and Tribulations: mHealth Clinical Trials in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Synopsis

280
Diallo, Gayo; Bordea, Georgeta; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research Trends

Best Paper Selection

Research & Education

283
Hripcsak, George; Schuemie, Martijn J.; Madigan, David; Ryan, Patrick B.; Suchard, Marc A.: Drawing Reproducible Conclusions from Observational Clinical Data with OHDSI

History of Medical Informatics

Information on IMIA

Information on IMIA Regional Groups

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Nakashima, Naoki; Maruf, Rafiqul Islam; Schaper, Louise; Wong, Chun Por; John, Oommen; Gogia, Shashi Bhushan; Choi, In Young; Hunter, Inga; Marcelo, Alvin; Lin, Ming-Chin Mark; Kijsanayotin, Boonchai; Dissanayake, Vajira H. W.: APAMI
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Kouematchoua Tchuitcheu, Ghislain B.; Oluoch, Tom; Wanyee, Steven; da-Costa Vroom, Frances Baaba; Nguefack-Tsague, Georges; Were, Martin; Verbeke, Frank; Wright, Graham: Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA)
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Tara, Mahmood; Adel, Taweel; Dari, Alhuwail; Al Thani, Dena A.; Al-Jafar, Eiman; Abu Hamra, Eman; Ghazal, Hassan; Wahba, Hoda; Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz; AlKhalifa, Khalid; Joseph, Leena; Zeroug, Mohamed; Odeh, Mohammad Bani; Alhefzi, Mohammed I.; Hamdi, Mounir; Househ, Mowafa; Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb; El Hassan, Osama; Al-Salmi, Salim Abdullah; Amara, Tamer; Sari, Zoubir: Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA)
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Cimino, James J.; Kushniruk, André; Casselman, Marc: North American Medical Informatics (NAMI)
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Gallos, Parisis G.; Mantas, John; Pape-Haugaard, Louise; Randell, Rebecca; Stoicu-Tivadar, Lacramioara; Weber, Patrick; Winter, Alfred: EFMI

Miscellaneous