Web 3.0 promises us smart computer services that will interact with each other and leverage knowledge about us and our immediate context to deliver prioritised and relevant information to support decisions and actions. Healthcare must take advantage of such new knowledge-integrating services, in particular to support better co-operation between professionals of different disciplines working in ...

The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health professionals in the region since 1999. The Fogarty International Center suppor...

includes an " Informatics in Action! " section , which provides short case studies of how the concept being discussed could be implemented in real life situations. Each chapter also contains a brief summary statement and an extensive reference list. At the end of the text is a basic glossary of essential terms. Some of the chapters include paragraphs discussing the role of the librarian or libr...

It is indeed exciting to work in a field where challenges evolve rapidly and continuously. This is the privilege of disciplines, such as ours, that lie at the intersection of many scientif ic and societal domains. As physical and digital aspects of our lives mingle increasingly, the prospect of informatics making a real difference to health outcomes and healthcare processes becomes ever more re...

Standards are the key towards facilitating the sharing and exchange of information between departments, health agencies and health workers. They are needed for the information content, language used, database and system architectures to facilitate linkage between systems through an apparently seamless integration of highly distributed systems. This is often referred to as ‘interoperability’. El...

Introduction The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) is established by International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) which is the world body for health and biomedical informatics. The Academy will serve as an honor society that recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally. Academy membership will be one of the highest honors in the in...

The advances of health informatics over the last 50 years are briefly sketched to reveal the pervasiveness of their applications in health and health care. The relations to research in health informatics and health are pointed out. From this perspective it is argued that the evolution of consumer health informatics in the last decade has had a profound impact on the practice of medicine, on pat...

Strengthening the capacity of public health systems to protect and promote the health of the global population continues to be essential in an increasingly connected world. Informatics practices and principles can play an important role for improving global health response capacity. A critical step is to develop an informatics agenda for global health so that efforts can be prioritized and impo...

" The depth of the changing process in health, its dimension and dynamics do not depend only on the political will and the punctual subjective aspirations, but especially on the existence and sufficiency of the necessary objective conditions, on the first place being the managerial ones. The special role of the manager in the context of the problems in the nowadays health system is imposed by t...