Yoshitaka Kimura, MD, Takeshi Aiba, MD, PhD, Tetsuo Sasano, MD, PhD, Tetsushi Furukawa, MD, PhD, Kengo Kusano, MD, PhD, Wataru Shimizu, MD, PhD From the Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan, Department of Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Senda...

The "informatics revolution" in both bioinformatics and dental informatics will eventually change the way we practice dentistry. This convergence will play a pivotal role in creating a bridge of opportunity by integrating scientific and clinical specialties to promote the advances in treatment, risk assessment, diagnosis, therapeutics, and oral health-care outcome. Bioinformatics has been an em...

CORINA MARCAUTEANU1, ENIKÖ TÜNDE STOICA1, CRISTINA BORTUN 2, MEDA-LAVINIA NEGRUTIU3, COSMIN SINESCU3*, ANCA TUDOR4 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeo” Timiooara, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Occlusion, 9 Revolutiei Blv., 300070, Timiooara, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeo”, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Dental Technology, Timiooara, 9 Rev...

Health informatics technology includes the information technology and electronics employed during medical care procedures and is generally known as clinical informatics. The definition of this specialty was given by the American Medical Information Association in order to describe the role of communication systems in improving the doctor-patient relationship and the quality of medical care. The...

Fourth-year dental students at the College of Dentistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center participate in a community-based dental education (CBDE) program that includes a four-week rotation in rural dental practices and community health clinics across Nebraska and nearby states. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of participation in the CBDE program on the self-rated competenci...

In 2012, the AMIA Board of Directors issued a white paper which defined biomedical informatics 1 and noted that '…iden-tifying new competency areas on an ongoing basis is especially important for a field that is rapidly changing in both its inform-atics and its biomedical and health aspects.' With the advent of the new medical board certification in Clinical Informatics and our efforts to devel...