Health Informatics: Linking Investment to Value

Value-Based Health Technology Assessment and Health Informatics

Guide to Health Informatics

From the very earliest moments in the modern history of the computer, scientists have dreamed of creating an " electronic brain ". Of all the modern technological quests, this search to create artificially intelligent (AI) computer systems has been one of the most ambitious and, not surprisingly, controversial. It also seems that very early on, scientists and doctors alike were captivated by th...

Looking for the evidence: value of health informatics. Editorial.

OBJECTIVES To provide an editorial introduction to the 2013 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. METHODS A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions. RESULTS Health information technology (HIT) is currently widely implemented to improve healthcare quality and pati...

From Genotype to Phenotype: Linking Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Ontologies

A small group of around 40 people came together at the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester for the Ontologies Workshop, chaired by Alan Rector and Robert Stevens. The workshop was, rather strangely, spread over 2 half days. In hindsight, this programme worked very well as it gave people the opportunity to chat over a drink on the Saturday evening and share ideas, before launching into t...

Nursing Informatics: Decades of Contribution to Health Informatics

OBJECTIVES In this paper we present a contemporary understanding of "nursing informatics" and relate it to applications in three specific contexts, hospitals, community health, and home dwelling, to illustrate achievements that contribute to the overall schema of health informatics. METHODS We identified literature through database searches in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library...