This review article discusses some of the problems associated with teaching fundamental medical disciplines «Medical and Biological Physics» Informatics» in 10 universities from 7 European countries. A comparison is made organization these natural (in particular, volume classroom hours) at Bogomolets National Medical University other for specialty «Medicine». It was found that absolute majority...

Objectives: To develop and bring into practice a scalable genuine technology platform for clinical decision support (CDS). Methods: Arden Syntax is a widely recognized formal language for representing clinical and scientific knowledge in an executable format, maintained by Health Level Seven (HL7) International and approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Fuzzy set theory a...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. It is now more than twenty years since when Izet Masic, at that time already well known in EFMI/IMIA circles, entered the world of Medical Informatics (MI) publishing by starting in 1993 his journal " Acta Informatica Medica " (Acta Inform Med), in which he ...

Objective The Health Risk Reminders and Surveillance (HRRS) system was designed to deliver critical abnormal test results of severely ill patients from Laboratory, Radiology, and Pathology departments to physicians within 5 min using cell phone text messages. This paper explores the success of the HRRS system. Method This study employed an augmented version of the DeLone and McLean IS success m...

The topic of High Performance Medical Image Computing for Image-Assisted Clinical Intervention and Decision-Making is central for imaging informatics, since the amount and complexity of imaging data continues to grow as new modalities are added to the radiological repertoire in an increasingly distributed (and often cloud-computing) environment. This top ic was the subject of the 2010 High Perf...

Correspondence to: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Heinz Handels Institute of Medical Informatics University of Lübeck Ratzeburger Allee 16