Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMed

Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMed.

OBJECTIVE To obtain an overview of Australian health informatics (HI) research through a bibliometric analysis using PubMed. METHOD Australian HI publications from 1970 to 2005 were downloaded in Medline format using PubMed queries. These were written to a Microsoft Access database using a software application, PubMed Grabber/Analyzer, developed by us. Search Query Language and online PubMed ...

Health services research in Australia.

The long-awaited Wills Implementation Committee Report (CoA 2000), which was completed by November last year, has now been released. Wills’ earlier Report (CoA 1998) identified the need for the development of health services research capacity in Australia, and this new Report recommends how this should be done, through the establishment and support of several large multi-disciplinary centres. T...

History and Trends of "Personal Health Record" Research in PubMed

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to review history and trends of personal health record research in PubMed and to provide accurate understanding and categorical analysis of expert opinions. METHODS For the search strategy, PubMed was queried for 'personal health record, personal record, and PHR' in the title and abstract fields. Those containing different definitions of the word were ...

Research Strategies for Biomedical and Health Informatics

BACKGROUND Medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics (BMHI), has become an established scientific discipline. In all such disciplines there is a certain inertia to persist in focusing on well-established research areas and to hold on to well-known research methodologies rather than adopting new ones, which may be more appropriate. OBJECTIVES To search for answers to the follow...

Integrated health research centres for Australia.