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Implementation and Evaluation of the MSc Course in Health Informatics in Greece
OBJECTIVES: Health informatics is a well established and important multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary field that not only involves informatics but also medicine, nursing, engineering, biology and other-related subjects...
Keywords: Health Informatics, inter-university academic programs, health and medical informatics education
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerEvaluation of Electronic Health Record Systems
Objectives: The objective of this article is to present an overview of the various considerations to be made prior to evaluating electronic health record (EHR) systems...
Keywords: Evaluation methodology, medical record, Health Informatics, electronic health record.
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerThe School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria: Towards an Intergrative Model for Health Informatics Education and Research
Objectives: There is an increasing need for well qualified health informatics practitioners and for educational programs that produce them...
Keywords: Health Information Science, Health Informatics, education, training, Distance Education
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAn Approach to Policy Analysis and Development of Medical Informatics
There are three grand challenges for medical informatics policy: (1) What is it (2) What should it be (3) How can we influence its development To address these challenges requires: (1) an historical analysis of medical informatics policies in a representative sample of countries...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, Policy
12/1999 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerReflections on an Arranged Marriage between Bioinformatics and Health Informatics
OBJECTIVE: To compare the discussions of two workshops held during 2001 by two Canadian organisations, HEALNet, a Network of Centres of Excellence for research in health information applications, and Genome Canada, a national research funding agency for genomics and proteomics, in collaboration with the Institute of Genetics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to examine strategic research development in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics respectively. METHODS: Invited workshops with structured debate...
Keywords: Health Informatics, bioinformatics, workshop, Canada
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerMedical Informatics Specialists: What Are their Job Profiles? Results of a Study on the First 1024 Medical Informatics Graduates of the Universities of Heidelberg and Heilbronn
OBJECTIVES: Since 1972, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn have jointly been running a medical informatics program...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, education
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerThe Challenge of Ubiquitous Computing in Health Care: Technology, Concepts and Solutions. Findings from the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005
OBJECTIVES: To review recent research efforts in the field of ubiquitous computing in health care. To identify current research trends and further challenges for medical informatics. METHODS: Analysis of the contents of the Yearbook on Medical Informatics 2005 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). RESULTS: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 includes 34 original papers selected from 22 peer-reviewed scientific journals related to several distinct research areas: health and clinical management, patient records, health information systems, medical signal processing and biomedical imaging, decision support, knowledge representation and management, education and consumer informatics as well as bioinformatics. A special section on ubiquitous health care systems is devoted to recent developments in the application of ubiquitous computing in health care...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, International Medical Informatics Association, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Mobile computing, yearbook
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerBad Health Informatics Can Kill Is Evaluation the Answer
OBJECTIVE: Health care is entering the age of information society. It is evident that the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) offers tremendous opportunities to improve health care...
Keywords: Health Informatics, technology assessment, Evaluation
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerThe International Partnership for Health Informatics Education: Lessons Learned from Six Years of Experience
OBJECTIVES: To inform the medical and health informatics community on the rational, goals, and the achievements of the International Partnership for Health Informatics Education IPHIE, (IE), that was established at six universities in 1999. METHODS: We elaborate on the overall goals of IE and describe the current state of affairs: the activities undertaken and faculty and student experience related to these activities...
Keywords: Health Informatics, Medical Informatics, international educational exchange
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerEvaluation of the Electronic Transmission of Medical Findings from Hospitals to Practitioners by Triangulation
Objectives: The need for regional, cross-institutional electronic networks in health care is steadily growing to support seamless, cooperative health care...
Keywords: Health Informatics, evaluation studies, Hospital Information Systems, triangulation, electronic transmission of findings, regional networks
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerMedical Informatics Education Needs Information System Practicums in Health Care Settings Experiences and Lessons Learned from 32 Practicums at Four Universities in Two Countries
OBJECTIVES: To report about the themes and about experiences with practicums in the management of information systems in health care settings (health information management) for medical informatics students. METHODS: We first summarize the topics of the health information management practicums/projects that the authors organized between 1990 and 2003 for the medical informatics programs at Heidelberg/Heilbronn, Germany, UMIT, Austria, as well as for the informatics program at the University of Leipzig, Germany...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, Hospital Information Systems, Health information systems, education
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerIsolation to Interface to Integration Is it Feasible to Seek a Holistic Profession?
OBJECTIVES: Over thirty years both divergence and synergy have been seen in the health informatics (HI) domain; to the point where aspiration is towards a collective environment recognising HI as a mature discipline internationally...
Keywords: Health Informatics, fragmentation, history, organisation, maturity
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerProcess Potential Screening An Instrument to Improve Business Processes in Hospitals
OBJECTIVES: Hospitals are increasingly under pressure to optimize their processes. So far, an instrument to systematically identify the potentials for improvement of a given business process is missing...
Keywords: business process, Process Management, process evaluation, quality management, Health Informatics
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerModeling in Biomedical Informatics - An Exploratory Analysis (Part 1)
OBJECTIVES: Modeling is a significant part of research, education and practice in biomedical and health informatics...
Keywords: modeling, Biomedical Informatics, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerIs Medical Informatics an Art or a Science?
OBJECTIVE: To give an introduction to the special topic on 'Medical Informatics: Art or Sciene?' in honor of Prof...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, biomedicalinformatics, research education
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerTriangulation Applied to Jan H. van Bemmel
OBJECTIVE: To describe the person of Jan H. van Bemmel from different points of view. METHOD: Triangulation...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, education, Research
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer