Biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) is an evolving discipline that needs to accompany the progression of healthcare by constantly updating the curriculum of its workforce [1]. In developing countries, capacity building in BMHI can be used to address capacity shortfalls, by providing electronic information and training, especially in rural and underserved areas, with robust clinical data fo...

OBJECTIVES To summarize the challenges facing clinical applications in the light of growing research results in genomic medicine and bioinformatics. METHODS Analysis of the contents of the Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2004 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). RESULTS The Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2004 includes 32 articles selected from 22 peer-reviewed scien...

Medical Imaging Informatics has become a fast evolving discipline at the crossing of Informatics, Computational Sciences, and Medicine that is profoundly changing medical practices, for the patients' benefit.

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...

Within health and health care, medical informatics and its subspecialties of biomedical, clinical, and public health informatics have emerged as a new discipline with increasing demands for its own work force. Knowledge and skills in medical informatics are widely acknowledged as crucial to future success in patient care, research relating to biomedicine, clinical care, and public health, as we...

Sara Forootan, Mohammad Reza Forootan, Yalda Mousazadeh. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Medical Student in Bushehr University of Medical Science, Bushehr, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Medical informatics has been a separate subject for the last 15 years with regard to Medical curriculum at the biomedical faculties in the country (1,2). Education in the field of Medical informatics is based on the concept which is used in developed countries, according to the recommendations of the working groups EDU - Education of...

1. Dept. of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3. Dept. of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medic...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED LAST TWO YEARS, THE HEALTH INFORMATICS PROFESSION CELEBRATED FIVE JUBILEES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: thirty years from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data, twenty years from the establishment of Society for Medical Informatics BiH, fifteen years from the establishment of the Scientific and Professional Journal of the Society for Medic...

tribute to the quality of patient care, the Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2003 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), has taken this question as this year’s special topic. This issue of the Yearbook demonstrates the significance of medical informatics by presenting examples of its contributions to the quality of health. In this paper, we will give an overview on the cont...