Lina Mosch, Mobinasadat Tayyeb, Patrick Heeren, Alexander Windberger, Anne Rike Flint, Roland Roller, Joan Alsolivany, Nils Hecht, Felix Balzer
{"title":"Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring Data in the General Ward: Exploratory Analysis.","authors":"Lina Mosch, Mobinasadat Tayyeb, Patrick Heeren, Alexander Windberger, Anne Rike Flint, Roland Roller, Joan Alsolivany, Nils Hecht, Felix Balzer","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250643","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores and analyzes a high-frequency vital sign- and event dataset from surgical ward patients to prepare for the training and application of predictive models.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"1447-1448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acceptance of Digital Health Services in Emergency Medical Services in North Greece.","authors":"Despoina Andrikou, Stergiani Spyrou, Ioanna Simeli, Panagiotis Bamidis","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250373","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the acceptance of digital health services among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals in Northern Greece using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Data from eighty-two (82) participants revealed a generally positive attitude towards digital transformation, emphasizing the need for further training in digital literacy. Key findings suggest that perceived usefulness (PU) and ease of use (PEOU) are critical drivers for the adoption of digital health technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"434-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sascha Noel Weimar, Henri Minaschek, Rahel Sophie Martjan, Orestis Terzidis
{"title":"Decoding Digital Therapeutics: A Qualitative Analysis of Software Features in German Digital Health Applications.","authors":"Sascha Noel Weimar, Henri Minaschek, Rahel Sophie Martjan, Orestis Terzidis","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital therapeutics (DTx) offer significant potential for enhancing patient care, but their functional elements remain underexplored. This study systematically analyzes and clusters 197 distinct features across 35 DTx, organizing them into 19 themes and six overarching dimensions. It distinguishes between features considered digital active ingredients and excipients of DTx, providing a comprehensive framework of their interactions. These findings offer valuable insights for stakeholders in the field, advancing the understanding of DTx building blocks.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"924-928"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a Telemedicine Curriculum with Micro-Credentialing: Insights from the Erasmus Plus TEAM Project.","authors":"Mircea Focsa, Virgil Rotaru","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Erasmus Plus TEAM (Telemedicine Education Advancement through Microcredentials) project aims to address gaps in telemedicine education by developing a scalable and adaptable micro-credentialing system. This system, designed to be flexible and responsive to the evolving healthcare landscape, is adaptable to the unique needs of different healthcare systems. It collaborates with academic institutions, healthcare providers, and industry stakeholders from five countries, creating a framework that enhances healthcare professionals' competencies in telemedicine. The system aligns with European Qualifications Framework (EQF) standards, offering learners modular educational opportunities ranging from 0.5 to 9 ECTS credits. This paper outlines the project's methodology and creation of didactic materials. By focusing on formal education and lifelong learning, the TEAM project seeks to modernise telemedicine training and ensure its relevance in real-world healthcare settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"1029-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gleb Danilov, Diana Kalaeva, Nina Vikhrova, Svetlana Shugay, Ekaterina Telysheva, Sergey Goraynov, Alexandra Kosyrkova, Galina Pavlova, Igor Pronin, Dmitriy Usachev
{"title":"Does Whole Brain Radiomics on Multimodal Neuroimaging Make Sense in Neuro-Oncology? A Proof of Concept Study.","authors":"Gleb Danilov, Diana Kalaeva, Nina Vikhrova, Svetlana Shugay, Ekaterina Telysheva, Sergey Goraynov, Alexandra Kosyrkova, Galina Pavlova, Igor Pronin, Dmitriy Usachev","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employing a whole-brain (WB) mask as a region of interest for extracting radiomic features is a feasible, albeit less common, approach in neuro-oncology research. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between WB radiomic features, derived from various neuroimaging modalities in patients with gliomas, and some key baseline characteristics of patients and tumors such as sex, histological tumor type, WHO Grade (2021), IDH1 mutation status, necrosis lesions, contrast enhancement, T/N peak value and metabolic tumor volume. Forty-one patients (average age 50 ± 15 years, 21 females and 20 males) with supratentorial glial tumors were enrolled in this study. A total of 38,720 radiomic features were extracted. Cluster analysis revealed that whole-brain images of biologically different tumors could be distinguished to a certain extent based on their imaging biomarkers. Machine learning capabilities to detect image properties like contrast-enhanced or necrotic zones validated radiomic features in objectifying image semantics. Furthermore, the predictive capability of imaging biomarkers in determining tumor histology, grade and mutation type underscores their diagnostic potential. Whole-brain radiomics using multimodal neuroimaging data appeared to be informative in neuro-oncology, making research in this area well justified.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"577-581"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prabath Jayathissa, Lukas Rohatsch, Stefan Sauermann, Rada Hussein
{"title":"OMOP-on-FHIR: Integrating the Clinical Data Through FHIR Bundle to OMOP CDM.","authors":"Prabath Jayathissa, Lukas Rohatsch, Stefan Sauermann, Rada Hussein","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250432","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The harmonization of the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) with HL7 FHIR aims to enhance interoperability in clinical research by harmonizing diverse healthcare datasets. This process, referred to as OMOP-on-FHIR, leverages FHIR Bundles for real-time clinical data exchange and transforms these resources into OMOP CDM format using an ETL process. The ETL pipeline, facilitated by tools like XSLT, enables the extraction, transformation, and loading of data while maintaining semantic consistency. By bridging these two standards, OMOP-on-FHIR promotes the seamless exchange of data across clinical systems and research-oriented databases, supporting global health studies, advanced analytics, and personalized medicine. This methodology advances cross-border research by providing a standardized approach to data management and analysis, thereby improving healthcare outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"667-671"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sameer Asim Khan, Jamal Taiyara, Nabil Zary, Farah Otaki
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Narrative Feedback Analysis for Competency-Based Medical Education: A Review.","authors":"Sameer Asim Khan, Jamal Taiyara, Nabil Zary, Farah Otaki","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) generates large volumes of qualitative data in the form of narrative feedback. Traditional qualitative analysis methods face limitations in managing this data's scale and complexity. This review explores the applications, impact, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP), for analyzing and visualizing medical student performance feedback within CBME contexts. We conducted a comprehensive search of PubMed and Google Scholar databases, identifying key studies that met our inclusion criteria. Our findings highlight how AI can enhance traditional analysis methods by automating theme extraction, reducing educator workload, and improving feedback evaluation processes. The review also addresses challenges associated with AI implementations, including contextual limitations and the need for human oversight. We conclude by emphasizing AI's transformative potential in CBME while identifying critical areas for further research to ensure effective integration into educational workflows.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"1423-1427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Uzair Shah, Naseem Khan, Mahmood Alzubaidi, Marco Agus, Mowafa Househ
{"title":"ArtInsight: A Multimodal AI Framework for Interpreting Children's Drawings and Enhancing Emotional Understanding.","authors":"Uzair Shah, Naseem Khan, Mahmood Alzubaidi, Marco Agus, Mowafa Househ","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent advancements in multimodal image-to-text models have greatly enhanced the interpretation of children's drawings for emotional understanding purposes. This paper introduces a framework that analyzes these drawings to fully automatically generate detailed reports, covering art descriptions, emotional themes, assessments, and personalized recommendations. Our approach involved annotating 5,000 images by exploiting a Large Language Model (ChatGPT) and by fine-tuning the BLIP (Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training) multimodal model. We performed fine-tuning in two steps: 1) we applied Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to the image encoder to preserve its pre-trained features while adapting it to our task, and 2) we refined the text decoder to capture the language patterns needed for comprehensive assessments. The system processes children's artwork as input, using multimodal image-to-text techniques to derive meaningful insights. Although these reports are initial evaluations rather than formal clinical assessments, they provide a valuable starting point for understanding children's emotional and psychological states. This tool can assist art therapists, educators, and parents in gaining a deeper understanding of children's inner worlds. Our research highlights the intersection of artificial intelligence and child psychology, showing how technology can complement human expertise in nurturing children's emotional well-being. By offering a structured, AI-driven analysis of children's drawings, this framework creates new opportunities for early intervention, personalized support, and enhanced communication between children and their caregivers. The impact of this work may extend beyond individual assessments, potentially informing broader strategies in child development, art therapy, and educational practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"808-812"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Vicente Alvarez, Milena Abbiati, Alban Bornet, Georges Savoldelli, Nadia Bajwa, Douglas Teodoro
{"title":"Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Medical Specialty Choice.","authors":"David Vicente Alvarez, Milena Abbiati, Alban Bornet, Georges Savoldelli, Nadia Bajwa, Douglas Teodoro","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250543","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Equitable distribution of physicians across specialties is a significant public health challenge. While previous studies primarily relied on classic statistics models to estimate factors affecting medical students' career choices, this study explores the use of machine learning techniques to predict decisions early in their studies. We evaluated various supervised models, including support vector machines, artificial neural networks, extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and CatBoost using data from 399 medical students from medical faculties in Switzerland and France. Ensemble methods outperformed simpler models, with CatBoost achieving a macro AUROC of 76%. Post-hoc interpretability methods revealed key factors influencing predictions, such as motivation to become a surgeon and psychological traits like extraversion. These findings show that machine learning could be used for predicting medical career paths and inform better workforce planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"1049-1053"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasia Farmaki, Dimitris Kyrou, Petros Sountoulides, Stergiani Spyrou, Panos Bonotis, Christina Plomariti, Victoria Leclercq, Tugce Schmitt, Christina Karamanidou, Pantelis Natsiavas
{"title":"Exploring Telemedicine Acceptance: Applying the COM-B Model to Understand Cancer Patients' Perspectives.","authors":"Anastasia Farmaki, Dimitris Kyrou, Petros Sountoulides, Stergiani Spyrou, Panos Bonotis, Christina Plomariti, Victoria Leclercq, Tugce Schmitt, Christina Karamanidou, Pantelis Natsiavas","doi":"10.3233/SHTI250343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250343","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The integration of telemedicine services into healthcare practices presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly in cancer care. The European eCAN Joint Action aims to provide a framework of recommendations for integrating telemedicine and remote monitoring into healthcare systems. Within the scope of the eCAN JA, a foresight exercise was conducted, which included the completion of a Rapid Literature Review to identify the key factors influencing cancer patients' adoption of telemedicine. The 34 identified key factors informed the design of a dedicated poll. In a different context, we were motivated to understand, from a psychological perspective, how these factors influence cancer patients' adoption of telemedicine and to categorize them. In this work, the 34 key factors were mapped using the COM-B model to gain a deeper understanding of the elements shaping cancer patients' views on adopting telemedicine services. The next step would involve designing targeted actions to enhance the adoption of telemedicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"327 ","pages":"353-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}