Background: European universities offer a variety of programs in Medical Informatics. The Europen Federation Informatics (EFMI) offers accreditation these programs. Objectives: To describe the process EFMI new Austrian master’s program and reflect on benefits. Methods: Reflection feedback experiences at UMIT TIROL Results: Accreditation needs quite some preparation but essential opportunities f...

fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (dss). while electronic health records (ehrs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...

Quasi-experimental study designs, often described as nonrandomized, pre-post intervention studies, are common in the medical informatics literature. Yet little has been written about the benefits and limitations of the quasi-experimental approach as applied to informatics studies. This paper outlines a relative hierarchy and nomenclature of quasi-experimental study designs that is applicable to...

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...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis over a twenty year period (1987-2006). METHODS A bibliometric analysis of medical informatics citations indexed in Medline was performed using publication trends, journal frequen...