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Utility of Electronic Notifications
Notifications Received by Primary Care Practitioners in Electronic Health Records: A Taxonomy and Time Analysis Primary care providers receive large numbers and types of asynchronous electronic medical...
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Computerized Patient Education
Using Animated Computer-generated Text and Graphics to Depict the Risks and Benefits of Medical Treatment Computer-animated depictions of risks and benefits offer an effective means to describe medical...
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AJM Mobile Apps
Free American Journal of Medicine apps for mobile devices American Journal of Medicine subscribers can now access the Journal more easily from their iPads, iPhones, or Androids. Want to read The...
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Please ‘Like’ Us…
The American Journal of Medicine has a Facebook page. If you are one of the millions of people on Facebook, please “like” us. https://www.facebook.com/amjmedicine
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Fatality Risks on the Road and in Space
A close-up camera view shows Space Shuttle Columbia as it lifts off from Launch Pad 39A on mission STS-107. Launch occurred on schedule on 16th of January, 2003Photo courtesy of...
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Are e-Cigarettes Safe?
Anatomy of an e-cigarette As the popularity of e-cigarettes increases, concerns are being raised about their safety and lack of regulation. E-cigarettes are not regulated or taxed like normal...
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Using Text Messages to Improve Medication Adherence
One-way Versus Two-way Text Messaging on Improving Medication Adherence: Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials Two-way text messaging (reminder plus patient reply) improves medication adherence by 23%,...
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New Functionality, More Social Media Added to AJM Blog
The American Journal of Medicine blog got a minor face lift this week, in an effort to strengthen the Journal’s social media presence, as well as tie the blog to other AJM/Elsevier services and...
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AJM on Social Media: Tweeting Trends Show Reader Interest
The American Journal of Medicine’s home page– AmJMed.com– has an interesting link to Altmetrics, an online tool that measures social media engagement with the Journal’s research articles. So, what are...
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Fitness & Health Apps: Do They Work? (video)
These two screen shots from the iPhone display of the Misfit Shine app show a sharp contrast between weekday activity (1a) and weekend activity (1b). Figure 1a clearly shows the early morning swimming...
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Crowd-Sourcing Syncope Diagnosis: Mobile Smartphone ECG Apps
A 76-year-old gentleman with a history of hypertension, on low-dose lisinopril, had a witnessed syncopal episode. He fainted from a standing position with no prodrome. He was unresponsive for 15...
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Reading Level of Internet Medical Information for Common Diagnoses
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommend that health materials be written at a grade 6-7 reading level, which has generally not been achieved in online reading materials. Up to the present...
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Cardiac Examination: Stethoscope or Pocket Echo—Why Not Both?
Portable echocardiographic devices were first introduced in 1978.1 As technology has evolved, they have become smaller and more comprehensive. At present, pocket echos (pocket-sized, hand-held cardiac...
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Sampling of Electronic Medical Records Predicts Hospital Mortality
Validated system for monitoring electronic health records in real time predicts patients at a higher risk for mortality, according to new report published in The American Journal of Medicine...
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Fraud in Academic Publishing: Researchers Under Cyber-Attacks
Percentage of suspicious e-mails that we received from May 2015 to May 2016. Day by day, researchers receive new suspicious e-mails in their inboxes. Many of them do not have sufficient information...
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Digital Medicine: “O Brave New World”
Joseph S. Alpert, MD Recently, I participated in an international meeting in Nanjing, China on digital medicine. The meeting was sponsored by the Chinese Society of Digital Medicine and the newly...
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Best Practice Advisories Should Not Replace Good Clinical Acumen
Electronic medical records (EMR) have revolutionized clinical practice. They facilitate documentation, improve communication and coordination of care among medical providers, and afford a manner of...
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Lessons Learned from Mississippi’s Telehealth Approach to Health Disparities
Robert Galli, MD, at the UMMC TelEmergency Telemedicine Center monitoring in-room care using audio and video access to both patients and providers at 9 critical care hospitals. Many people see...
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Telemedicine Specialty Support Promotes Hepatitis C Treatment by Primary Care...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest US provider of hepatitis C treatment. Although antiviral regimens are becoming simpler, hepatitis C antivirals are not typically prescribed by primary...
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The New Trend in Medicine
During the 4 decades of my clinical training and practice of medicine, I always felt a sense of ownership and full responsibility in caring for my patients. What I have noticed over the past decade is...
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