Krishna Rajan, Jörg Behler and Chris J. Pickard introduce the Materials Advances themed collection on Informatics.

The use of computers in the delivery of health care has significantly improved the way health service is delivered to clients and patients in the world. Despite the importance of computing to the delivery of health service, developing countries have not greatly benefited from it. Nursing informatics has been in existence and part of academic curriculum for the past 2 decades in some advanced co...

introduction: commitment to abstracting standards has a very significant role in information retrieval. the present research aimed to evaluate the rate of commitment to iso 214 standards among the persian abstracts of approved research projects at school of health management and medical informatics, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.    methods: this descriptive study used a...

Through this paper we make two contributions to social informatics: the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Our first contribution is to make a connection from social informatics to general principles of sociotechnical theories. ...

This paper is devoted to problems of management of cost efficiency of business informatics with Business Intelligence (BI) assistance. It defines basic critical points that must be taken into account during creating models for management of cost efficiency of business informatics. It proposes new model for management of cost efficiency, this model include also definitions of dimensions and indi...

OBJECTIVES The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of excellent papers on medical informatics research which have been recently published (http://www. yearbook.uni-hd.de). The 2003 Yearbook of Medical Informatics took as its theme the role of medical informatics for the quality of health care....

The Computer Science, Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (CoSBBI) program was initiated in 2011 to expose the critical role of informatics in biomedicine to talented high school students.[1] By involving them in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) training at the high school level and providing mentorship and research opportunities throughout the formative years of their educatio...

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...

OBJECTIVE To reflect about medical informatics as a discipline. To suggest significant future research directions with the purpose of stimulating further discussion. METHODS Exploring and discussing important developments in medical informatics from the past and in the present by way of examples. Reflecting on the role of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, in influencing...