History of Medical Informatics - an Overview

History of Medical Informatics - an Overview

Health professionals are able to make right decision in right time only if they posses prompt, accurate and up to date information about health status of patients and general population. They also need knowledge and tools, computer and information technologies, for successful management of huge amount of information. Efficient management of information is of crucial importance for health policy...

Overview of Medical Imaging Informatics

An Abridged History of Medical Informatics Education in Europe

This contribution presents the development of medical informatics education in Europe. It does not discuss all developments that took place. Rather it discerns several themes that indicate the progress in the field, starting from the initiation phase to the final quality control phase.

Contributions to the History of Medical Informatics

Health professionals are able to make right decision in right time only if they posses prompt, accurate and up to date information about health status of patients and general population. They also need knowledge and tools, computer and information technologies, for successful management of huge amount of information. Efficient management of information is of crucial importance for health policy...

Medical Informatics Research at Georgia Tech : an Overview

The overall objective of this paper is to describe ongoing research programs in the Medical Informatics Laboratory in the Bioengineering Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Current research projects are highly interdisciplinary, spanning such areas as computer vision and image processing, arti cial intelligence, and computer graphics and visualization. In general, the emphasis of the...