147 On July 5th passed away academician professor Jana Zvarova, one of pioneers and one of most influential Medical informatics scientist and expert in Europe and in the world. Professor Jana Zvarova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After graduating in mathematics in 1965 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague she has been working with several faculties of Ch...

Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

“Medical informatics is a developing body of knowledge and set of techniques concerning the organization and management of information in support of medical research, education, and patient care. Medical informatics combines medical science with several technologies and disciplines in the information and computer sciences and provides methodologies by which these can contribute to better use of...

Objective: The International Medical Infor matics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics /medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives co...

Objectives: To describe the new set-up of our Master of Science program in medical informatics that started in September 2006 at the University of Amsterdam-Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands. Methods: To harmonize with the Bologna declaration, we transformed our former medical informatics program from a 4-year course into a 3-year bachelor and a 2-year (English) Master of Science Medical...

Reinhold Haux1; Stefanie Kuballa1; Mareike Schulze1; Claudia Böhm2; Olaf Gefeller 3; Jan Haaf 2; Peter Henning 2; Corinna Mielke1; Florian Niggemann 2; Andrea Schürg 2; Dieter Bergemann 2 1Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany; 2 Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany; 3 Institute for Medical Informatic...