Yearb Med Inform 2014; 23(01): 265-272
DOI: 10.15265/IY-2014-0026
Original Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Commentaries on the IMIA Award of Excellence Lecture by Reinhold Haux

A. Hasman
1   Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
,
W. Hersh
2   Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
,
N. M. Lorenzi
3   Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee USA
,
E. H. Shortliffe
4   College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY; Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
,
J. H. van Bemmel
5   Erasmus University and Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
› Author Affiliations
Further Information

Publication History

22 May 2014

Publication Date:
05 March 2018 (online)

Summary

The IMIA Yearbook editorial team asked five internationally renowned biomedical informaticians to respond to Prof. Haux’s editorial. This paper summarizes their thoughts and responses. Contributions are ordered alphabetically by the contributor’s last name. All authors provided an equal contribution to this manuscript.

 
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