The demand for evidence-based health informatics and benchmarking of 'good' information systems in health care gives an opportunity to continue reporting on recent papers in the German journal GMS Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (MIBE) here. The publications in focus deal with a comparison of benchmarking initiatives in German-speaking countries, use of communication standards in...

Computer Security System / technology have passed through several changes. The trends have been from what you know (e.g. password, PIN, etc) to what you have (ATM card, Driving License, etc) and presently to who you are (Biometry) or combinations of two or more of the trios. This technology (biometry) has come to solve the problems identified with knowledge-based and token-based authentication ...

A national German funding initiative for Medical Informatics focusing at data integration for medicine gives an opportunity to reopen a window to Germany. In the open window appears a best paper selection of the 2015 annual conference of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology and papers of the German journal GMS Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (MIBE)...