JAMIA is AMIA's premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics. Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science, imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy. JAMIA's articles describe innovative informatics research and systems that help to advance biomedical science and promote health. Case reports, perspectives, and reviews also help readers stay connected with the most important informatics developments in implementation, policy, and education.
Suzanne Bakken is the Editor-in-Chief and leads a team of informatics leaders serving as the JAMIA Editorial Board.
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Recent JAMIA Articles
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JAMIA Article
May 8, 2024
Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms are increasingly being applied to obtain unsupervised representations of electronic health record (EHR) data, but their comparative performance at predicting clinical endpoints remains unclear. Our objective was to compare the performance of unsupervised representations of sequences of disease codes generated by bag-of-words versus sequence-based NLP […]
JAMIA Article
May 8, 2024
Social media-based public health research is crucial for epidemic surveillance, but most studies identify relevant corpora with keyword-matching. This study develops a system to streamline the process of curating colloquial medical dictionaries. We demonstrate the pipeline by curating a UMLS-colloquial symptom dictionary from COVID-19-related tweets as proof of concept.
JAMIA Article
May 7, 2024
Racial disparities in kidney transplant access and posttransplant outcomes exist between non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients in the United States, with the site of care being a key contributor. Using multi-site data to examine the effect of site of care on racial disparities, the key challenge is […]
JAMIA Article
May 6, 2024
This article aims to enhance the performance of larger language models (LLMs) on the few-shot biomedical named entity recognition (NER) task by developing a simple and effective method called Retrieving and Chain-of-Thought (RT) framework and to evaluate the improvement after applying RT framework.