Advances in an Interdisciplinary Science

Bemmel, Jan H. van; McCray, A. T.

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“…In the Netherlands, the VMBI was founded in 1970, and the Norwegian and Belgian (MIM) society were both established in 1974. Other major European countries such as Germany and the UK, had scientific or technological professional societies like the GMDS (covering informatics, biometrics, and epidemiology) and the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Specialist Groups, taking responsibility for the professional organization of informatics in their countries [54]. BMHI can be said to have reached a milestone of international recognition as a distinct discipline in its own right after the success of the first World Congress or MEDINFO held in Stockholm in 1974.…”

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50 Years of Achievements and Persistent Challenges for Biomedical and Health Informatics and John Mantas’ Educational and Nursing Informatics Contributions

Kulikowski

2022

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

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Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI) have been essential catalysts for achievements in medical research and healthcare applications over the past 50 years. These include increasingly sophisticated information systems and data bases for documentation and processing, standardization of biomedical data, nomenclatures, and vocabularies to assist with large scale literature indexing and text analysis for information retrieval, and methods for computationally modeling and analyzing research and clinical data. Statistical and AI techniques for decision support, instrumentation integration, and workflow aids with improved data/information management tools are critical for scientific discoveries in the - omics revolutions with their related drug and vaccine breakthroughs and their translation to clinical and preventive healthcare. Early work on biomedical image and pattern recognition, knowledge-based expert systems, innovative database, software and simulation techniques, natural language processing and computational ontologies have all been invaluable for basic research and education. However, these methods are still in their infancy and many fundamental open scientific problems abound. Scientifically this is due to persistent limitations in understanding biological processes within complex living environments and ecologies. In clinical practice the modeling of fluid practitioner roles and methods as they adjust to novel cybernetic technologies present great opportunities but also the potential of unintended e-iatrogenic harms which must be constrained in order to adhere to ethical Hippocratic norms of responsible behavior. Balancing the art, science, and technologies of BMHI has been a hallmark of debates about the field’s historical evolution. The present article reviews selected milestones, achievements, and challenges in BMHI education mainly, from a historical perspective, including some commentaries from leaders and pioneers in the field, a selection of which have been published online recently by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) as the first volume of an IMIA History WG eBook. The focus of this chapter is primarily on the development of BMHI in terms of those of its educational activities which have been most significant during the first half century of IMIA, and it concentrates mainly on the leadership and contributions of John Mantas who is being honored on his retirement by the Symposia in Athens for which this chapter has been written.

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50 Years of Achievements and Persistent Challenges for Biomedical and Health Informatics and John Mantas’ Educational and Nursing Informatics Contributions

Kulikowski

2022

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

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On Determining Factors for Good Research in Biomedical and Health Informatics

Haux

2014

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Summary Objective: What are the determining factors for good research in medical informatics or, from a broader perspective, in biomedical and health informatics? Method: From the many lessons learned during my professional career, I tried to identify a fair sampling of such factors. On the occasion of giving the IMIA Award of Excellence lecture during MedInfo 2013, they were presented for discussion. Results: Sixteen determining factors (df) have been identified: early identification and promotion (df1), appropriate education (df2), stimulating persons and environments (df3), sufficient time and backtracking opportunities (df4), breadth of medical informatics competencies (df5), considering the necessary preconditions for good medical informatics research (df6), easy access to high-quality knowledge (df7), sufficient scientific career opportunities (df8), appropriate conditions for sustainable research (df9), ability to communicate and to solve problems (df10), as well as to convey research results (df11) in a highly inter- and multidisciplinary environment, ability to think for all and, when needed, taking the lead (df12), always staying unbiased (df13), always keeping doubt (df14), but also always trying to provide solutions (df15), and, finally, being aware that life is more (df16). Conclusions: Medical Informatics is an inter- and multidisciplinary discipline “avant la lettre”. Compared to monodisciplinary research, inter- and multidisciplinary research does not only provide significant opportunities for solving major problems in science and in society. It also faces considerable additional challenges for medical informatics as a scientific field. The determining factors, presented here, are in my opinion crucial for conducting successful research and for developing a research career. Since medical informatics as a field has today become an important driving force for research progress, especially in biomedicine and health care, but also in fields like computer science, it may be helpful to consider such factors in relation with research and education in our discipline.

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Advances in an Interdisciplinary Science

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50 Years of Achievements and Persistent Challenges for Biomedical and Health Informatics and John Mantas’ Educational and Nursing Informatics Contributions

50 Years of Achievements and Persistent Challenges for Biomedical and Health Informatics and John Mantas’ Educational and Nursing Informatics Contributions

On Determining Factors for Good Research in Biomedical and Health Informatics

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