Personal Health Informatics. Editorial

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2012 IMIA Yearbook.This 2012 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in personal health informatics, impacting the activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field.There has been steady progress towards introducing individualization or personalization into informatics systems by taking advantage of the increasing amounts of personal information that is relevant to medical decisions and application in clinical practice. At the same time, there are serious issues about the limits of existing systems being able to effectively personalize information within both practical and ethical constraints so critical to the practice of medicine. Recent literature bearing on these questions includes the selected papers published during the past 12 months, and articles reported by IMIA Working Groups on these topics.Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline, focusing on the challenges and opportunities involved in personal health informatics.

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Towards Health Informatics 3.0. Editorial

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1638729 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (01) ◽

pp. 06-07 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Casimir Kulikowski ◽

Antoine Geissbuhler

Keyword(s):

Health Informatics ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Main Theme ◽

Research Education ◽

Main Research ◽

Web 3.0 ◽

The Past ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Working Groups

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2011 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2011 IMIA Yearbook.This 2011 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in the development of Web 3.0 capabilities that are increasing in Health Informatics, impacting the activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field. There has been steady progress towards introducing semantics into informatics systems through more sophisticated representations of knowledge in their underlying information. Health Informatics 3.0 capabilities are identified from the recent literature, illustrated by selected papers published during the past 12 months, and articles reported by IMIA Working Groups.Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline, focusing on Web 3.0 challenges and opportunities.

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Health Informatics: Building Capacity Worldwide. Editorial

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1638679 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 19 (01) ◽

pp. 06-07 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C. A. Kulikowski ◽

Antoine Geissbuhler

Keyword(s):

Medical Informatics ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Main Theme ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Research Education ◽

Main Research ◽

The Past ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Wide Range ◽

Workforce Capacity

Summary Objectives: To provide an editorial introduction to the 2010 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. Methods: A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2010 IMIA Yearbook. Results: This 2010 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in the building of workforce capacity in medical informatics worldwide, covering activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field. Progress towards educating and keeping professionals in the field up-to-date is complemented by outreach to the wide range of disciplines and biomedical and health specialties that are covered by this very broad field, identified from the recent literature, illustrated by selected papers published during the past 12 months.xs Conclusion: Reviews and Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline.

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IMIA: Coalescing Medical Informatics Worldwide for 40 Years

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1638546 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 16 (01) ◽

pp. 176-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C. A. Kulikowski

Keyword(s):

Medical Informatics ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Health Care Research ◽

Professional Organization ◽

Time Line ◽

Research Education ◽

The Past ◽

Full Participation ◽

Working Groups

SummaryTo summarize and highlight the role of IMIA in the past 40 years in becoming the international professional organization that brings together researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field of medical informatics, and more broadly biomedical, nursing, and health informaticsOutlining developments of medical informatics related to IMIA from 1967 to 2007 in a time-line and comparative topic and geographical distribution analyses over selected MEDINFOs from 1980 and selected Yearbooks from 1992 onwards. This illustrates how IMIA, through the global reach of its activities, has helped advance the science and development of informatics across the entire spectrum of biomedical and health care research, education, and practice.The contribution of IMIA over the past 40 years has been to sponsor and coordinate international conferences and promote interchange and collaborations in biomedical and health informatics by linking national and regional societies, organizing meetings, high quality publications, and working groups. These have helped the coalescing of the discipline worldwide, promoting full participation and a broad interdisciplinary scope that fulfills the hopes of the pioneers in the field.

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Access to Health Information. Editorial

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1638575 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

pp. 17-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. Kulikowski ◽

A. Geissbuhler

Keyword(s):

Health Information ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Critical Role ◽

Main Theme ◽

Main Research ◽

The Past ◽

Research Fields ◽

Access To Health ◽

Number Of Publications

Summary Objectives To provide an editorial introduction to the 2008 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. MethodsA brief overview of the main theme of “Access to Health Information”, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2008 IMIA Yearbook. Results This 2008 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights how Access to Health Information has become ubiquitous over the web during the past decade, with a significant number of publications in biomedical and health informatics addressing both the science and technology of the field and how it is contributing to the improvement of health systems worldwide through a number of original contributions, and selected excellent papers published during the past 12 months. Conclusion The reviews and surveys on the main research fields in medical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress during this fortieth year of IMIA, focusing on the critical role that informatics plays in access to health information.

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