This paper presents the results of an author co-citation analysis of the health and medical informatics discipline. It updates a smaller study that focused on health information systems. Drawing on such subfields as bio informatics, clinical decision support systems, computational genomics, e-health, health informatics, and others, this body of knowledge defines the core internal structure of t...

Dr Ammenwerth received her undergraduate education in medicine from the University of Essen in Germany, and a doctorate in medical informatics from the University of Heidelberg’s Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics. She also received a degree in habilitation in medical informatics from the University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Tirol, Austria. She rose t...

In 2012, the AMIA Board of Directors issued a white paper which defined biomedical informatics 1 and noted that '…iden-tifying new competency areas on an ongoing basis is especially important for a field that is rapidly changing in both its inform-atics and its biomedical and health aspects.' With the advent of the new medical board certification in Clinical Informatics and our efforts to devel...

The 2015 Informatics Needs and Capacity of Local Health Departments (LHDs) survey is the most recent comprehensive source of quantitative data on LHD informatics. Conducted by the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), this is the third nationally representative quantitative study of LHD informatics since 2009. The previous 2 comprehensive quantitative assessments were...

The Education Program for Health Informatics Professionals (EPHIP) is a diploma program in Applied Health Informatics. Here we emphasize the methods ofprogram development and the innovative nature ofthis program. Large numbers of these IT/IM professionals are incompletely prepared for their roles in the health system: many lack either management or Computer Science education, and virtually none...

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 pap...

The rapid emergence of programmes in health informatics, medical informatics and biomedical informatics implies a need for core curricula in these diverse disciplines. This study investigated the recommended competencies for health and medical informatics, aiming to develop a framework for use in curricular development. Current health and medical programmes around the world were analysed to ass...

INTRODUCTION The successful implementation and utilisation of electronic health information systems is dependent on a highly knowledgeable and skilled workforce. In Australia there is a range of education and training opportunities that seeks to meet these workforce needs. This range of programs reflects both the multi-disciplinary characteristic of health informatics and its wide application w...

From the very earliest moments in the modern history of the computer, scientists have dreamed of creating an " electronic brain ". Of all the modern technological quests, this search to create artificially intelligent (AI) computer systems has been one of the most ambitious and, not surprisingly, controversial. It also seems that very early on, scientists and doctors alike were captivated by th...