European medical informatics professionals traditionally gather at congresses of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) named "Medical Informatics Europe - MIE". After more than three decades of successive organization of these congresses, some important points of their history of are presented. As the MIE Congress in Sarajevo, organized by the Society for Medical Informatics of...

Informatics is a relatively new discipline, but is nowadays of key importance in all economic processes. Many professionals need development of different informatics backgrounds. The Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 (ICF-2000) [3] has been designed to cope with a large diversity of demand for informatics education in a controlled way. It offers 8 different curriculum specifications that fi...

BACKGROUND Despite its obvious need, a current, research-based list of informatics competencies for nurses is not available. OBJECTIVE To produce a research-based master list of informatics competencies for nurses and differentiate these competencies by level of nursing practice. METHODS After a comprehensive literature review and item consolidation, an expert panel defined initial competen...

OBJECTIVE Health informatics has growing importance in clinical practice with successive General Medical Council recommendations. However, prior data suggest that undergraduate medical education largely neglects this area. An up-to-date, UK-wide view of health informatics training in medical schools is required. DESIGN An online survey was developed using current guidance and recommendations ...

The article presents the organizational and pedagogical conditions for training future informatics teachers using modern artificial intelligence technologies. Their implementation made it possible to modernize process of mastering technologies by students through changing content academic discipline, aimed at developing skills ideas teacher in field intelligence, ensuring inclusion educational ...

94 Application of Ambient Intelligence in Educational Institutions: Visions and Architectures Vladimír Bureš, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Petr Tučník, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Peter Mikulecký, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hrad...

INTRODUCTION Encyclopedias and their compilation have become so prevalent as a valid cultural medium in the world. The daily development of computer industry and the expansion of various sciences have made indispensable the compilation of electronic, specialized encyclopedias, especially the web-based ones. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is an applied-developmental study conducted in 2014. First,...

OBJECTIVE To identify the breadth of informatics sub-discipline terms used in the literature for enabling subsequent organization and searching by sub-discipline. METHODS Titles in five literature sources were analyzed to extract terms for informatics sub-disciplines: 1) United States (U.S.) Library of Congress Online Catalog, 2) English Wikipedia, 3) U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) C...

BACKGROUND Science has developed from a solitary pursuit into a team-based collaborative activity and, more recently, into a multidisciplinary research enterprise. The increasingly collaborative character of science, mandated by complex research questions and problems that require many competencies, requires that researchers lower the barriers to the creation of collaborative networks of expert...