AMIA Advocates National Health Information System in Fight Against National Health Threats

Position Paper: AMIA Advocates National Health Information System in Fight Against National Health Threats

To protect public health and national safety, AMIA recommends that the federal government dedicate technologic resources and medical informatics expertise to create a national health information infrastructure (NHII). An NHII provides the underlying information utility that connects local health providers and health officials through high-speed networks to national data systems necessary to det...

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National Health Information Systems in Korea

This study describes the current status of computerization for hospitals and makes various recommendations to improve the level of computerization and information sharing between hospitals in order to strengthen the National Health Information System (NHIS). According to a survey of 314 out of 1,289 hospitals in August 2005, the computerization level was higher for the specialty tertiary hospit...

HealthFinland —A National Publication System for Semantic Health Information

HEALTHFINLAND is a national semantic publishing system for providing Finnish citizens with reliable, up-to-date information about health. The system consists of three parts: 1) a centralized service of health ontologies with tools, 2) a semantic content creation channel based on several distributed health organizations, and 3) an intelligent semantic portal aggegating and presenting the content...

Rhetoric and Reality in the English National Health Service; Comment on “Who Killed the English National Health Service?”

Despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the National Health Service (NHS) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. But if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.