Telemedicine and Burnout-How Enhancing Operational Support Can Improve Digital Health Tools.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unprecedented growth in telemedicine due to the need to provide safe access to care during a global pandemic. The regulatory, compliance, and payment policy landscape favorably changed, paving the way for growth in utilization. Despite these favorable changes in the landscape, operational and technical burdens remained barriers to optimal use of telemedicine. Investments in operational processes and vendor selection can improve the patient and clinician experience in using telemedicine, so this digital tool can diminish burnout.

Cancer Informatics 2023: Data Sharing and Federating Learning Point Towards New Collaborative Opportunities.

OBJECTIVE: To summarize significant research contributions on cancer informatics published in 2022. METHODS: An extensive search using PubMed/MEDLINE was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2022 that address topics in cancer informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) ten candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of three best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. RESULTS: The three selected best papers demonstrate advances in federated learning, drug synergy prediction, and utilization of clinical note data. CONCLUSION: Cancer informatics continues to mature as a subfield of biomedical informatics. Applications of informatics methods to data sharing and federated approaches are especially notable in 2022.