Data protection and information security in biomedical research: A sequential explanatory mixed study.

Purpose: Biomedical research is a pillar of every medical student's career. When collecting data, several regulations are established to ensure the protection of individuals. Most medical students are not compliant with the guidelines, and this is probably due to a lack of knowledge.

Virtual reality for healthcare: A scoping review of commercially available applications for head-mounted displays.

Objective: This scoping review aimed to describe the scope of commercially available virtual reality (VR) healthcare applications for mainstream head-mounted displays (HMD)s.

Methods: A search was conducted during late April and early May 2022 over five major VR app stores using "health," "healthcare," "medicine," and "medical" as keywords. Apps were screened based on their title and description sections.

Cost of bladder cancer in Lebanon before and after the economic collapse: a probabilistic modeling study.

Background And Objectives: Lebanon has one of the highest incidence rates of bladder cancer (BC) in the world. In 2019, Lebanon's economy collapsed which majorly impacted healthcare costs and coverage. This study assesses the overall direct costs of urothelial BC in Lebanon, from the perspective of public and private third-party payers (TPP) and households, and evaluates the impact of the economic collapse on these costs.

Physician eye contact in telemedicine video consultations: A cross-cultural experiment.

Introduction: Eye contact is generally considered a beneficial non-verbal behavior in patient-physician communication. Physicians are advised to simulate eye contact during video consultations by gazing at the camera, although we lack evidence that doing so is beneficial. This work is a cross-cultural experiment that aims to answer: "Are physicians who gaze at the camera during video consultations perceived as making eye contact, and are their communication skills rated higher?"

Methods: 43 Japanese and 61 Lebanese participants watched videos of physicians providing the same video consultations while gazing at the camera and screen.

Data Protection in Healthcare Research: Medical Students' Knowledge and Behavior.

Healthcare research involves handling personal health information. Information security policies are implemented in research institutions to ensure data subjects' rights but are not always respected due to researchers' neglect or unawareness. This paper is part of an action research project at Saint Joseph University in Lebanon aiming to increase researchers' compliance with the university's information security policy.

Ensuring Care Continuity in Extreme Crises: A Participatory Action Research Approach.

The Lebanese healthcare system has been facing major challenges due to an unprecedented financial crisis, socio-political instability, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to examine the impact of overlapping major crises on care continuity and to propose IT-based solutions to address current challenges and build future resilience. To this end, we adopted a participatory action research approach and conducted a two-phase qualitative study - six semi-structured interviews followed by three future workshops with local stakeholders including physicians and interns practicing in Lebanon.

Physician Communication Skills in Telemedicine: The Role of Eye Contact.

Gaze is an important non-verbal behavior in patient-physician communication. We examine the effect of the physician's gaze direction in video consultations on their communication and interpersonal skills ratings. 51 subjects watched videos of a physician providing the same teleconsultations while (a) looking directly at the camera and (b) looking at the computer screen.

Mobile sonouroflowmetry using voiding sound and volume.

Uroflowmetry (UF) is a common clinic-based non-invasive test to diagnose Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction (LUTD). Accurate home-based uroflowmetry methods are needed to conveniently conduct repeated uroflowmetries when patients are physiologically ready to urinate. To this end, we propose and evaluate a novel mobile sonouroflowmetry (SUF) method that estimates the urinary flow rate from a sound signal recorded using a mobile phone.

Factors Related to Personal Health Data Sharing: Data Usefulness, Sensitivity and Anonymity.

Using an online survey, we examined the relationships between the perceived usefulness, sensitivity, and anonymity of personal health data and people's willingness to share it with researchers. An analysis of 112 responses showed that people's willingness and perceptions are related to the type of the data, their trust in the data's anonymity, and their personal sociodemographic characteristics. In general, we found that people do not completely trust that their identities remain anonymous when sharing data anonymously with researchers.

Automatic Classification of Screen Gaze and Dialogue in Doctor-Patient-Computer Interactions: Computational Ethnography Algorithm Development and Validation.

Background: The study of doctor-patient-computer interactions is a key research area for examining doctor-patient relationships; however, studying these interactions is costly and obtrusive as researchers usually set up complex mechanisms or intrude on consultations to collect, then manually analyze the data.

Objective: We aimed to facilitate human-computer and human-human interaction research in clinics by providing a computational ethnography tool: an unobtrusive automatic classifier of screen gaze and dialogue combinations in doctor-patient-computer interactions.

Methods: The classifier's input is video taken by doctors using their computers' internal camera and microphone.

Validity and reliability of an Arabic version of the Sleep Hygiene Index.

Aim: this study aims to assess the reliability and validity of an Arabic version of the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI).

Methods: A methodological study was carried out in four stages: initial translation by 2 professional translators, evaluation and synthesis of the initial translation by project managers, back-translation and validation. The Arabic (SHI-AR) and English (SHI-ENG) versions of the SHI were administered across Lebanon as an anonymous online survey in April 2020.

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physicians' Use and Perception of Telehealth: The Case of Lebanon.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced physicians to quickly adapt and find ways to provide their usual offline services by using online tools. We aimed to understand how physicians adapted to the sudden need for telehealth and if their perception of telehealth changed due to their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an exploratory sequential mixed-methods study.

Visualizing the Cascade Effect of Redesigning Features in an EMR System.

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are complex systems with interdependent features. Redesigning one feature of the system can create a cascade effect affecting the other features. By calculating the cascade effect, the designers can understand how each individual feature could be affected.

Understanding the Situated Roles of Electronic Medical Record Systems to Enable Redesign: Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Redesigning electronic medical record (EMR) systems is needed to improve their usability and usefulness. Similar to other artifacts, EMR systems can evolve with time and exhibit situated roles. Situated roles refer to the ways in which a system is appropriated by its users, that is, the unintended ways the users engage with, relate to, and perceive the system in its context of use.

Understanding the Roles of EMR Systems in Japanese Antenatal Care Settings.

Electronic Medical Records (EMR)s are intrinsic to modern-day clinics. Understanding the roles, i.e.

Generation of openEHR Test Datasets for Benchmarking.

openEHR is a widely used EHR specification. Given its technology-independent nature, different approaches for implementing openEHR data repositories exist. Public openEHR datasets are needed to conduct benchmark analyses over different implementations.