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  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

James J. Cimino is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant portion of work dedicated to biomedical text mining and ontologies, electronic health records systems, and machine learning applications within healthcare.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, with main publications distributed across these domains. Subfields of study include genetics, health information management, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and general health professions.

Frequent research topics addressed in Cimino's work include:

  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences Research and Education

Among the most frequented publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Applied Clinical Informatics
  • Yearbook of Medical Informatics

James J. Cimino has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Robert L. Bradford, David A. Hanauer, Tiago K. Colicchio, Riccardo Bellazzi, and Douglas S. Bell, each contributing to a significant number of joint publications.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Cimino include:

  • The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): Rationale, design, infrastructure, and deployment (2020), published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative (2021), published in JAMA Network Open
  • International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium (2020), published in npj Digital Medicine
  • Towards standardization of echocardiography for the evaluation of left ventricular function in adult rodents: a position paper of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function (2020), published in Cardiovascular Research
  • Development and validation of a trans-ancestry polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes in diverse populations (2022), published in Genome Medicine

James J. Cimino was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

    Edward H. Shortliffe;James J. Edward H. Shortliffe. James J. Cimino Cimino

  • A General Natural-language Text Processor for Clinical Radiology

    Carol Friedman;Philip O. Alderson;John H. M. Austin;James J. Cimino

  • Desiderata for Controlled Medical Vocabularies in the Twenty-First Century

    James.J. Cimino

  • DXplain: An Evolving Diagnostic Decision-Support System

    G O Barnett;J J Cimino;J A Hupp;E P Hoffer

  • Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research.

    William R. Hersh;Mark G. Weiner;Peter J. Embi;Judith R. Logan

  • The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): Rationale, Design, Infrastructure, and Deployment.

    Melissa A Haendel;Melissa A Haendel;Christopher G Chute;Tellen D Bennett;David A Eichmann

  • A Randomized Trial Comparing Telemedicine Case Management with Usual Care in Older, Ethnically Diverse, Medically Underserved Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: 5 Year Results of the IDEATel Study

    Steven Shea;Ruth S. Weinstock;Ruth S. Weinstock;Jeanne A. Teresi;Jeanne A. Teresi;Walter Palmas

  • Knowledge-based approaches to the maintenance of a large controlled medical terminology.

    James J. Cimino;Paul D. Clayton;George Hripcsak;Stephen B. Johnson

  • Usability testing in medical informatics: cognitive approaches to evaluation of information systems and user interfaces.

    André Kushniruk;Vimla L. Patel;James J. Cimino

  • AskHERMES: An online question answering system for complex clinical questions

    Yonggang Cao;Feifan Liu;Pippa Simpson;Lamont D. Antieau

  • Internet as Clinical Information System: Application Development Using the World Wide Web

    James J. Cimino;Socrates A. Socratous;Paul D. Clayton

  • The patient clinical information system (PatCIS): technical solutions for and experience with giving patients access to their electronic medical records.

    James J Cimino;Vimla L Patel;Andre W Kushniruk

  • Toward a Medical-concept Representation Language

    David A. Evans;James J. Cimino;William R. Hersh;Stanley M. Huff

  • Designing an Introspective, Multipurpose, Controlled Medical Vocabulary.

    Cimino Jj;Hripcsak G;Johnson Sb;Clayton Pd

  • In defense of the desiderata

    James J. Cimino

  • International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium

    Gabriel A. Brat;Griffin M. Weber;Nils Gehlenborg;Paul Avillach

  • Perceived Information Needs and Communication Difficulties of Inpatient Physicians and Nurses

    Lawrence K. McKnight;Peter D. Stetson;Suzanne Bakken;Christine Curran

  • The practical impact of ontologies on biomedical informatics.

    J. J. Cimino;X. Zhu

  • From data to knowledge through concept-oriented terminologies: experience with the Medical Entities Dictionary.

    James J. Cimino

  • Auditing the Unified Medical Language System with Semantic Methods

    James J. Cimino

Frequent Co-Authors

Vimla L. Patel
Vimla L. Patel Columbia University
Suzanne Bakken
Suzanne Bakken Columbia University
Stephen B. Johnson
Stephen B. Johnson Columbia University
George Hripcsak
George Hripcsak Columbia University
Yehoshua Perl
Yehoshua Perl New Jersey Institute of Technology
Andre Kushniruk
Andre Kushniruk University of Victoria
Carol Friedman
Carol Friedman Columbia University
Chunhua Weng
Chunhua Weng Columbia University
G. Octo Barnett
G. Octo Barnett Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanley M. Huff
Stanley M. Huff University of Utah

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