New Challenges for Health Informatics

Pervasive Health Management: New Challenges for Health Informatics

This special issue addresses the area of Pervasive Health Management, which is beginning to challenge the twentieth century model of delivery, in which healthcare was organised in specialist locations and administered to patients by healthcare professionals. Thus primary care provides the initial contact, large hospitals administer specialist intervention and disease management, and long term h...

Urgent Challenges for Local Public Health Informatics

Good informatics improves public health. It enables public health agencies to be more responsive and productive. Improved accessibility to data can create more opportunities to improve health through partnerships, greater accountability, and improved efficiency. Informatics methods and approaches can address lack of timely data and enable quicker investigation of arising topics, from opioid abu...

Current trends and challenges in health informatics

Standardization of health informatics - results and challenges.

OBJECTIVES This review article aims to highlight the importance of standards for effective communication and provides an overview of international standardization activities. METHODS This article is based on the experience of the author of European standardization in CEN, which he leads, and the global work of ISO, where he is leading the security working group, and an overview of the work of...

Health informatics: current issues and challenges

Health informatics concerns the use of information and information and communication technologies within healthcare. Health informatics and information science need to take account of the unique aspects of health and medicine. The development of information systems and electronic records within health needs to consider the information needs and behaviour of all users. The sensitivity of persona...