Yearbook of Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVES: To introduce the 2023 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook by the editors. METHODS: The editorial provides an introduction and overview to the 2023 IMIA Yearbook where the special topic is "Informatics for One Health". The special topic, survey papers and some best papers are discussed. The section changes in the Yearbook editorial committee are also described. RESULTS: IMIA Yearbook 2023 provides many perspectives on a relatively new topic called "One Digital Health"...

OBJECTIVES: This review presents research papers highlighting notable developments and trends in sensors, signals, and imaging informatics (SSII) in 2022. METHOD: We performed a bibliographic search in PubMed combining Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms and keywords to create particular queries for sensors, signals, and imaging informatics. Only papers published in journals containing greater than three articles in the search query were considered. Using a three-point Likert scale (1 = not include, 2 = perhaps include, 3 = include), we reviewed the titles and abstracts of all database results...

OBJECTIVES: Machine learning (ML) is a powerful asset to support physicians in decision-making procedures, providing timely answers. However, ML for health systems can suffer from security attacks and privacy violations. This paper investigates studies of security and privacy in ML for health. METHODS: We examine attacks, defenses, and privacy-preserving strategies, discussing their challenges. We conducted the following research protocol: starting a manual search, defining the search string, removing duplicated papers, filtering papers by title and abstract, then their full texts, and analyzing their contributions, including strategies and challenges...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to highlight innovative research and contemporary trends in the area of Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics (PHEI). METHODS: Following a similar approach to last year's edition, a meticulous search was conducted on PubMed (with keywords including topics related to Public Health, Epidemiological Surveillance and Medical Informatics), examining a total of 2,022 scientific publications on Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics (PHEI)...

OBJECTIVE: To summarize the recent methods and applications that leverage real-world data such as electronic health records (EHRs) with social determinants of health (SDoH) for public and population health and health equity and identify successes, challenges, and possible solutions. METHODS: In this opinion review, grounded on a social-ecological-model-based conceptual framework, we surveyed data sources and recent informatics approaches that enable leveraging SDoH along with real-world data to support public health and clinical health applications including helping design public health intervention, enhancing risk stratification, and enabling the prediction of unmet social needs...

OBJECTIVES: To analyse the content of publications within the medical Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain in 2022. METHODS: Automatic and manual preselection of publications to be reviewed, and selection of the best NLP papers of the year. Analysis of the important issues. RESULTS: Three best papers have been selected. We also propose an analysis of the content of the NLP publications in 2022, stressing on some of the topics. CONCLUSION: The main trend in 2022 is certainly related to the availability of large language models, especially those based on Transformers, and to their use by non-NLP researchers...

OBJECTIVES: This survey aims to provide an overview of the current state of biomedical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and practice in Languages other than English (LoE). We pay special attention to data resources, language models, and popular NLP downstream tasks. METHODS: We explore the literature on clinical and biomedical NLP from the years 2020-2022, focusing on the challenges of multilinguality and LoE. We query online databases and manually select relevant publications...

OBJECTIVES: To select, present, and summarize the best papers in 2022 for the Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM) section of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook. METHODS: We conducted PubMed queries and followed the IMIA Yearbook guidelines for performing biomedical informatics literature review to select the best papers in KRM published in 2022. RESULTS: We retrieved 1,847 publications from PubMed. We nominated 15 candidate best papers, and two of them were finally selected as the best papers in the KRM section...

OBJECTIVES: Graph representation learning (GRL) has emerged as a pivotal field that has contributed significantly to breakthroughs in various fields, including biomedicine. The objective of this survey is to review the latest advancements in GRL methods and their applications in the biomedical field. We also highlight key challenges currently faced by GRL and outline potential directions for future research. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive search of multiple databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar, to collect relevant publications from the past two years (2021-2022)...

OBJECTIVES: To review publications in the field of Human Factors and Organisational Issues (HF&OI) in the year 2022 and to assess major contributions to the subject. METHOD: A bibliographic search was conducted following refinement of standardized queries used in previous years. Sources used were PubMed, Web of Science, and referral via references from other papers. The search was carried out in January 2023, and (using the PubMed article type inclusion functionality) included clinical trials, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, reviews, case reports, classical articles, clinical studies, observational studies (including veterinary), comparative studies, and pragmatic clinical trials...

OBJECTIVES: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2022 related to Health Information Exchange (HIE). METHODS: A systematic review of the literature was performed by the two section editors with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIE-related papers using both MeSH headings and keywords in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of ten candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by Yearbook editors and independent external reviewers...

OBJECTIVE: To summarize significant research contributions published in 2022 in the field of clinical decision support (CDS) systems and select the best papers for the Decision Support section of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook 2023. METHODS: A renewed search query for identifying CDS scholarship was developed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and related keywords. The query was executed in PubMed in January 2023. The search results were reviewed in three stages by two reviewers: title-based triaging, followed by abstract screening, and then full text review...

OBJECTIVE: To summarise the state of the art during the year 2022 in consumer health informatics and education, with a special emphasis on "One Health". METHODS: We conducted a systematic search of articles published in PubMed. We build queries to merge terms related to "consumer health informatics", "one health", and "digital". We retrieved 94 potential articles for review. These articles were screened according to topic relevance and 12 were selected for consideration of best paper candidates, which were then presented to a panel of international experts for full paper review and scoring...

BACKGROUND: With the rise of social media, social media use for delivering mental health interventions has become increasingly popular. However, there is no comprehensive overview available on how this field developed over time. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this paper is to provide an overview over time of the use of social media for delivering mental health interventions. Specifically, we examine which mental health conditions and target groups have been targeted, and which social media channels or tools have been used since this topic first appeared in research...

OBJECTIVES: To summarize key contributions to current research in the field of Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) and to select best papers published in 2022. METHOD: A bibliographic search using a combination of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) descriptors and free-text terms on CRI was performed using PubMed, followed by a double-blind review in order to select a list of candidate best papers to be then peer-reviewed by external reviewers. After peer-review ranking, a consensus meeting between the two section editors and the editorial team was organized to finally conclude on the selected three best papers...

OBJECTIVE: In this synopsis, the editors of the Clinical Information Systems (CIS) section of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics overview recent research and propose a selection of best papers published in 2022 in the CIS field. METHODS: The editors follow a systematic approach to gather relevant articles and select the best papers for the section. This year, they updated the query to incorporate the topic of telemedicine and removed search terms related to geographic information systems...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To examine the nature and use of automation in contemporary clinical information systems by reviewing studies reporting the implementation and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare settings. METHOD: PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, EMBASE, the tables of contents of major informatics journals, and the bibliographies of articles were searched for studies reporting evaluation of AI in clinical settings from January 2021 to December 2022...

OBJECTIVE: To summarize significant research contributions on cancer informatics published in 2022. METHODS: An extensive search using PubMed/MEDLINE was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2022 that address topics in cancer informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) ten candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of three best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook...

OBJECTIVES: To identify and summarize the top bioinformatics and translational informatics (BTI) papers published in 2022 for the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook 2023. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive literature search to identify the top BTI papers, resulting in a set of ten candidate papers. The candidates were reviewed by the section co-editors and external reviewers to select the top three papers from 2022. RESULTS: From a total of 558 papers, we identified a final candidate list of ten BTI papers for peer-review...

OBJECTIVE: To give an overview of recent research and propose a selection of best papers published in 2022 in Informatics for One Health. METHODS: An extensive search using PubMed and Web of Science was conducted to identify peer-reviewed articles published between December 2021 and December 2022, in order to find relevant publications in the 'Informatics for One Health' field. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) eight candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors; (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper; and (iii) the editorial committee of the Yearbook conducted the final best paper selection...