H. Handels1; T. M. Deserno2; H.-P. Meinzer3; T. Tolxdorff4 1Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; 2Department of Medical Informatics, Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany; 3Department of Medical and Biological Informatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 4Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité – University Medic...

European medical informatics professionals traditionally gather at congresses of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) named "Medical Informatics Europe - MIE". After more than three decades of successive organization of these congresses, some important points of their history of are presented. As the MIE Congress in Sarajevo, organized by the Society for Medical Informatics of...

BACKGROUND There is strong support for educating physicians in medical informatics, and the benefits of such education have been clearly identified. Despite this, North American medical schools do not routinely provide education in medical informatics. METHODS We conducted a qualitative study to identify issues facing the introduction of medical informatics into an undergraduate medical curri...

In 2012, Health/Medical informatics profession celebrates five jubilees in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a) Thirty five years from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data; b) Twenty five years from establishing Society for Medical Informatics BiH; c) Twenty years from establishing scientific and professional journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina...