Health and medical informatics in Croatia

Health and medical informatics in Croatia.

Medical Informatics in Croatia – a Historical Survey

A historical survey of medical informatics (MI) in Croatia is presented from the beginnings in the late sixties of the 20th century to the present time. Described are MI projects, applications in clinical medicine and public health, start and development of MI research and education, beginnings of international cooperation, establishment of the Croatian Society for MI and its membership to EFMI...

Medical Informatics: Concepts and Applications

Medical Informatics is a developing body of knowledge concerned with the use of information and communication technology in support of medical research, education and also for promoting health care delivery. The field focuses on the biomedical information, patient data, and also acquisition, storage, retrieval and optimal use of information for problem solving and decision making. The goal of m...

Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in health and medical informatics.

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on 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 concerning education in health and ...

A Medical Informatics Perspective on Health Informatics 3.0

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...