E.H. Shortliffe, J.J. Cimino (eds.), Biomedical Informatics, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_1, © Springer-Verlag London 2014 After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions: • Why is information and knowledge management a central issue in biomedical research and clinical practice? • What are integrated information management environments, and how might we expect them t...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper is to describe biomedical informatics training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). METHODS We reviewed biomedical informatics training, research, and faculty/trainee participation at UW-Madison. RESULTS There are three primary approaches to training 1) The Computation & Informatics in Biology & Medicine Training Program, 2) formal biomed...

BACKGROUND Biomedical informatics is a broad discipline that borrows many methods and techniques from other disciplines. OBJECTIVE To reflect a) on the character of biomedical informatics and to determine whether it is multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary; b) on the question whether biomedical informatics is more than the sum of its supporting disciplines and c) on the position of biomedi...

Methods Inf Med 5/2012 The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), together with its member society, the Danish Society of Medical Informatics (DSMI), will host the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo2013) in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 20 –23, 2013. IMIA is the leader for the international biomedical and health informatics communities. In line with i...

Medical informatics, as scientific discipline, has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of Medical informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialities and disciplines, Medical (Health) informatics has developed its own areas of em...

Changing the teaching of informatics in secondary (and primary) education is in many countries difficult to achieve, owing to several reasons: the natural tendency of institutions and people to stick to well-established practices, a distorted view of informatics prevailing in society and among those who take the decisions, the specific fact that in several school systems the teaching of informa...

Nursing informatics competencies are fundamental to nursing practice in all areas of nursing work, including direct patient care, administration and education. The recent activity relating to the development of nursing informatics competencies for beginning level nurses has exposed a paucity of understanding of the requirements for nursing informatics competencies for nurse educators. So, whils...

Programming is the basis of content line "Algorithms and programming", which studied throughout entire school course informatics, therefore programming tasks are one thematic blocks Unified State Exam (USE) in informatics. In particular, educational languages used solving USE informatics Python language. This language can be both for problems "Programming" section, other Exam, simplifying way t...

International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and European Federation of Medical Informatics are scientific associations which represents Health/Medical informatics as scientific and profesional disciplines. Those associations have long tradition in spreading knowledge, experiences and strategies in organization, practical applications and education within Health, Medical and Biomedical ...