• An Evaluation Framework for Defining the Contributions of Telestration in Surgical Telementoring 

      Budrionis, Andrius; Augestad, Knut Magne; Patel, Hitendra R.H.; Bellika, Johan Gustav (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Background: An increasing quantity of research in the domain of telemedicine show a growing popularity and acceptance of care over distance systems among both clinicians and patients. We focus on telementoring solutions, developed for providing remote guidance to less experienced surgeons. Telestration is often regarded as an extra functionality of some telementoring systems. However, we advocate ...
    • Secure and scalable statistical computation of questionnaire data in R 

      Yigzaw, Kassaye Yitbarek; Michalas, Antonis; Bellika, Johan Gustav (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-12)
      Collecting data via a questionnaire and analyzing them while preserving respondents' privacy may increase the number of respondents and the truthfulness of their responses. It may also reduce the systematic differences between respondents and non-respondents. In this paper, we propose a privacy- preserving method for collecting and analyzing survey responses using secure multi-party computation. The ...
    • Standards for reporting randomized controlled trials in medical informatics: a systematic review of CONSORT adherence in RCTs on clinical decision support 

      Augestad, Knut Magne; Berntsen, Gro; Lassen, Kristoffer; Bellika, Johan Gustav; Wootton, Richard; Lindsetmo, Rolv-Ole (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-07-29)
      Introduction The Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) were published to standardize reporting and improve the quality of clinical trials. The objective of this study is to assess CONSORT adherence in randomized clinical trials (RCT) of disease specific clinical decision support (CDS).<p> <p>Methods A systematic search was conducted of the Medline, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases. ...