Medical Informatics and the Quality of Health: New Approaches to Support Patient Care
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tribute to the quality of patient care, the Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2003 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), has taken this question as this year’s special topic. This issue of the Yearbook demonstrates the significance of medical informatics by presenting examples of its contributions to the quality of health. In this paper, we will give an overview on the content of the IMIA Yearbook 2003, and discuss how the selected papers address this interesting question.
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