JOMS

We are proud to announce the Journal of Medical Systems has achieved a 2025 Impact Factor of 8.8, up from 5.7, and a 5-Year Impact Factor of 6.0. JOMS remains Q1 in both Health Care Sciences & Services and Medical Informatics. Thank you to our authors, editors, and contributors!

Why transfuse—and what happens next? An open-access JOMS registry connects transfusion indications, doses & patient-reported outcomes. Pilot data: 408 patients, 1,298 administrations; long-term follow-up remains a challenge. link.springer.com/article/10…

High-frequency ICU data are valuable—but messy. New #openaccess JOMS brief report turns minute-by-minute MAP data from 1,368 cardiac surgery patients into stable, research-ready postoperative blood pressure profiles. link.springer.com/article/10…

In 800 surgical transcripts, 30–68% contained clinically significant errors, including medication, dose & lab mistakes; 53 could cause severe harm/death. LLM post-processing cut error-containing transcripts from 53% to 30%, but also introduced new errors. link.springer.com/article/10…

Real-world ICU deployment matters: this open-access JOMS study ran a 7-node thermal IoMT system in a 13-bed ICU for 10 days, capturing 5.7M images with 95.3% availability using existing hospital infrastructure. link.springer.com/article/10… #openaccess

Can guideline-grounded chatbots support patient education between visits? In a multicenter JOMS study, 10 rheumatology bots answered 6,291 questions across 13 centers, with 92.9% positive user ratings. link.springer.com/article/10… #openaccess

High “Quality CardioPulmonary Resuscitation” (QCPR) scores can still mask non-guideline CPR. A new #openaccess JOMS brief report shows how compression depth, rate & manikin resistance can affect scoring and why composite scores need context. link.springer.com/article/10…

Human + AI beat either alone for bilingual SNOMED CT mapping. In a new open-access JOMS study, agent-assisted experts improved accuracy and cut mapping time by 54%. link.springer.com/article/10… #openaccess

From audiogram image to clinical report: a new #openaccess JOMS study shows how audiologist-guided multimodal AI can separate transcription, rule-based interpretation, and communication for more auditable workflows. link.springer.com/article/10…

Average scores can hide dangerous failures. New open-access JOMS study tests 6 LLMs on 54 ED cases, highlighting catastrophic errors and reproducibility in safety evaluation. link.springer.com/article/10… #openaccess

From triage to 28-day mortality: IMPACT combines clinical, demographic & operational ED data into an interpretable risk score, tested across 593,673 visits. link.springer.com/article/10… #OpenAccess

One model, many horizons: new #openaccess JOMS research uses 20 routine variables for dementia detection and risk prediction up to 10 years, with fairness and explainability. link.springer.com/article/10…

What if diagnostic AI worked like a referral network? CPS-Net uses specialized transformers + collaborating agents to mirror primary care→specialist workflows—and beat monolithic baselines. link.springer.com/article/10… #openaccess

New open-access JOMS Comment: Clinical AI inherits assumptions embedded in labels, thresholds, proxies, and disease definitions. Dr Armoundas argues for decision-centered precision medicine that makes uncertainty explicit. link.springer.com/article/10…

New #openaccess JOMS study: MPEG-4 AAC can introduce clinically meaningful distortion in EEG/EMG signals, highlighting the need for dedicated biomedical codecs. link.springer.com/article/10…

Does a hospital’s information system choice matter? New #openaccess JOMS research across 1,607 German hospitals found greater digital maturity where HIS platforms offered broader module coverage and stronger integration with external systems. link.springer.com/article/10…

Accuracy tells only part of the story. In a new #openaccess JOMS study, Praschk et al. audit LLM reasoning summaries for COVID-19 vaccine stance detection, finding recurring failures involving sarcasm, target confusion, and label–rationale mismatches. link.springer.com/article/10…

Same study period, different EHR snapshot. New #openaccess JOMS research finds diagnosis-code distributions changed across later extractions, underscoring the need to report extraction dates and dataset versions. link.springer.com/article/10…

Can prior EHR data sharpen sepsis screening at triage? In a new #openaccess JOMS study, Maeng et al. introduce SSIT, an interpretable 9-variable score that outperformed qSOFA and MEWS for predicting septic shock in febrile ED patients. link.springer.com/article/10…

Brazil has many rare disease registry efforts, but they remain fragmented. In a new #openaccess article, Bernardi et al. identify 28 initiatives and outline a path toward a coordinated national registry built on interoperability, governance, and privacy. link.springer.com/article/10…

New #openaccess article in JOMS: Liu et al. develop and validate a digital maturity evaluation framework for Chinese tertiary public hospitals, applying 65 indicators across 1,361 hospitals to support benchmarking and targeted digital transformation. link.springer.com/article/10…