JAMIA Open is a peer-reviewed, online-only, and Gold Open Access journal, JAMIA Open provides a global forum for the publication of novel research and insights in the major areas of informatics for biomedicine and health (e.g., translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, and consumer health informatics), as well as related areas such as data science, qualitative research, and implementation science.
JAMIA Open articles, which include application notes, database notes, and patient/community perspectives, alongside original research, reflect the broad diversity of the field of informatics community, focusing on the intersection of informatics, health, communication, and technology, and how that intersection can support patient care through research, practice, and education. JAMIA Open authors are encouraged to make data and source code accessible through publicly accessible repositories that can be cited using digital object identifiers. Accepted manuscripts are required to have a patient/community facing abstract that highlights key findings. Author guidelines.
Neil Sarkar, PhD, MLIS, FACMI, is the Editor-in-Chief and leads a team of informatics leaders serving as the JAMIA Open Editorial Board and Associate Editors.
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Recent JAMIA Open Articles
Evaluating algorithmic bias on biomarker classification of breast cancer pathology reports.
June 1, 2025
This work evaluated algorithmic bias in biomarkers classification using electronic pathology reports from female breast cancer cases. Bias was assessed across 5 subgroups: cancer registry, race, Hispanic ethnicity, age at diagnosis, and socioeconomic status.
Real-time automated billing for tobacco treatment: developing and validating a scalable machine learning approach.
June 1, 2025
To develop CigStopper, a real-time, automated medical billing prototype designed to identify eligible tobacco cessation care codes, thereby reducing administrative workload while improving billing accuracy.
Clinical document corpora-real ones, translated and synthetic substitutes, and assorted domain proxies: a survey of diversity in corpus design, with focus on German text data.
June 1, 2025
We survey clinical document corpora, with a focus on German textual data. Due to rigid data privacy legislation in Germany, these resources, with only few exceptions, are stored in protected clinical data spaces and locked against clinic-external researchers. This situation stands in stark contrast with established workflows in the field […]
Computerized diagnostic decision support systems-Isabel Pro versus ChatGPT-4 part II.
June 1, 2025
Does a Tree-of-Thought prompt and reconsideration of Isabel Pro's differential improve ChatGPT-4's accuracy; does increasing expert panel size improve ChatGPT-4's accuracy; does ChatGPT-4 produce consistent outputs in sequential requests; what is the frequency of fabricated references?