Through a Different Lens: Examining How We Care for Adolescent-Headed Families

Examining SNS Adoption through Motivational Lens

The impact of social networking has become a focal point for Information Systems researchers; however, its potential benefits and impact have not been fully explored. Membership in social networks has been increasing steadily within the last decade but at the same time some members have abandon their accounts or use them minimally. To understand the differences in usage among members the adopti...

Examining Primary Healthcare Performance through a Triple Aim Lens

PURPOSE This study sought to apply a Triple Aim framework to the measurement and evaluation of primary healthcare (PHC) team performance. METHODS Triple Aim components were populated with 10 dimensions derived from survey and health administrative data for 17 Family Health Teams (FHTs) in Ontario, Canada. Bivariate analyses and rankings of sites examined the relationships among dimensions and...

Is health care headed for a meltdown?

How Should We Pay for Health Care?

Biomedical informatics: how we got here and where we are headed

This landmark issue of JAMIA is the first to introduce articles reflecting our extended scope in translational bioinformatics (TBI), as described in the editorial by Butte and Shah (see page 352). Just as medicine has evolved to rely on both molecular and clinical phenotyping, biomedical informatics has evolved to encompass the integration and analysis of information from different biological l...