Objectives: To provide an introduction to the 2017 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics by the editors. Methods: We present a brief overview of the 2017 special topic "Learning from experience: Secondary use of patient data". We review our choice of special topic section editors, present the new section "Health Information Management", and discuss transitions in the editorial team. Results: In ...

Development of high throughput data acquisition technologies, together with advances in computing, and communications have resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, and diversity of potentially useful information sources. This has resulted in unprecedented opportunities in data-driven knowledge acquisition and decisionmaking in a number of emerging increasingly data-rich application ...

This study delves into the theoretical examination, creation, and experimental testing of diverse instructional approaches aimed at introducing lyceum students to fundamental principles quantum informatics. Our research encompasses following accomplishments: 1) A comprehensive analysis relevant literature on teaching informatics, both within Ukraine internationally; 2) Theoretical grounding dev...

In numerous research elds, scientists are increasingly turning to e-science and specifically scienti c work ows as a way of improving, broadening and hastening their results. Enhanced collaboration, on-demand access to tools, data and high performance processing facilities are some of the gains to be made. Scienti c work ows are concerned with, amongst others, supporting the repeatability and p...

Nursing informatics competencies are constantly changing in response to advances in the health information technology (HIT) industry and research emerging from the fields of nursing and health informatics. In this paper we build off the work of Staggers and colleagues in defining nursing informatics competencies at five levels: the beginning nurse, the experienced nurse, the nursing informatics...

NEWS / ACTA INFORM MED. 2016 AUG; 24(4): 300-301 In the period from 1st to 3rd July 2016 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology and Healthcare (ICIMTH 2016) was held in Athens. The Conference was organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Greek Biomedical and Health Informatics Association, in cooperation with European Federation for Med...