Evolution of Trends in European Medical Informatics

Mihalas, George I.

doi:10.5455/aim.2014.22.37-43

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“…Our interpretation of the evolution of medical informatics parallels many of Mihalas [5] conclusions. Between 1990 and 2000, a consolidation period occurred where medical informatics became less of an "independent discipline".…”

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“…For example, DeShazo [4] reported on publication trends in the medical informatics literature over a 20 year time period by utilizing MeSH terms. Also, Mihalas [5] reported on the evolution of trends in the European Medical Informatics literature spanning over 50 years. Five major periods were identified and labeled: 1950-1975 "early" medical informatics (pre-organization/pioneering); 1975-1990 "childhood/youth" of medical informatics; 1990-2000 "consolidation period"; 2000-2010 "maturity of medical informatics"; and 2010-2020 "full integration" of medical informatics in medicine and healthcare.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

Yergens

Tam-Tham²,

Minty³

2016

Yearb Med Inform

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SummaryBackground: The last 25 years have been a period of innovation in the area of medical informatics. The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has published, every year for the last quarter century, the Yearbook of Medical Informatics, collating selected papers from various journals in an attempt to provide a summary of the academic medical informatics literature. The objective of this paper is to visualize the evolution of the medical informatics field over the last 25 years according to the frequency of word occurrences in the papers published in the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. Methods: A literature review was conducted examining the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics between 1992 and 2015. These references were collated into a reference manager application to examine the literature using keyword searches, word clouds, and topic clustering. The data was considered in its entirety, as well as segregated into 3 time periods to examine the evolution of main trends over time. Several methods were used, including word clouds, cluster maps, and custom developed web-based information dashboards. Results: The literature search resulted in a total of 1210 references published in the Yearbook, of which 213 references were excluded, resulting in 997 references for visualization. Overall, we found that publications were more technical and methods-oriented between 1992 and 1999; more clinically and patient-oriented between 2000 and 2009; and noted the emergence of "big data", decision support, and global health in the past decade between 2010 and 2015. Dashboards were additionally created to show individual reference data, as well as, aggregated information. Conclusion: Medical informatics is a vast and expanding area with new methods and technologies being researched, implemented, and evaluated. Determining visualization approaches that enhance our understanding of literature is an active area of research, and like medical informatics, is constantly evolving as new software and algorithms are developed. This paper examined several approaches for visualizing the medical informatics literature to show historical trends, associations, and aggregated summarized information to illustrate the state and changes in the IMIA Yearbook publications over the last quarter century.

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confidence: 67%

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confidence: 99%

Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

Yergens

Tam-Tham²,

Minty³

2016

Yearb Med Inform

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“…Our paper attempts to offer the reader such a view over the birth and development of medical informatics in Romania within its specific socio-political environment, with its ups and downs, marking the milestones, and analysing the present state. For the historical part, we followed the staging proposed in [2], presenting the difficulties encountered at the beginning, the efforts conducted to promote research and education, the role of industry, the relations with governmental institutions, and international collaborations and activities. The last part presents our recent activities and plans for the near future.…”

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History of Romanian Medical Informatics: Learning from the Past to Reshape the Future

Mihalas¹,

Stoicu-Tivadar

2018

Yearb Med Inform

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“…In 2012, the health informatics profession in Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated five jubilees ( 1 - 5 ): Thirty five years on from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data. In Sarajevo 1977, under the supervision of Fuad Secerbegovic, MD, Chief of the Department for Health Statistics, Republic Institute for Public Health BiH in, the company– “Energoinvest” Ltd. carried out the first analysis of summary and periodic health data reports about the network, capacities and performance of the healthcare service in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this analysis was previously performed manually in the above Institute.…”

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A Short History of Medical Informatics in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Masic¹

2014

Acta Inform Med

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The health informatics profession in Bosnia and Herzegovina has relatively long history. Thirty five years from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data, thirty years from the establishment of Society for Medical Informatics BiH, twenty years from the establishment of the Scientific journal “Acta Informatica Medica (Acta Inform Med”, indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central Scopus, Embase, etc.), twenty years on from the establishment of the first Cathedra for Medical Informatics on Biomedical Faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ten years on from the introduction of the method of “Distance learning” in medical curriculum. The author of this article is eager to mark the importance of the above mentioned Anniversaries in the development of Health informatics in Bosnia and Herzegovina and have attempted, very briefly, to present the most significant events and persons with essential roles throughout this period.

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Evolution of Trends in European Medical Informatics

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

History of Romanian Medical Informatics: Learning from the Past to Reshape the Future

A Short History of Medical Informatics in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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