Good Medicine and Good Health-care Demand Good Information (Systems)

A. Winter; R. -D. Hilgers; R. Hofestädt; U. Hübner; P. Knaup-Gregori; C. Ose; C. Schmoor; A. Timmer; D. Wege

doi:10.3414/ME15-05-1001

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 2015; 54(05): 385-387
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-05-1001

Editorial

Schattauer GmbH

Good Medicine and Good Health-care Demand Good Information (Systems)

A. Winter

¹Leipzig University, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig, Germany, Editor in Chief of MIBE

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R. -D. Hilgers

²RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Medical Statistics, Aachen, Germany, Editor of MIBE

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R. Hofestädt

³Bielefeld University, Bioinformatics Department, Bielefeld, Germany, Editor of MIBE

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U. Hübner

⁴Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany

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P. Knaup-Gregori

⁵Heidelberg University, Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg, Germany, Editor of MIBE

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C. Ose

⁶Duisburg-Essen University, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Trials, Essen, Germany, Editor of MIBE

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C. Schmoor

⁷Freiburg University, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Trials, Freiburg, Germany

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A. Timmer

⁸Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Department for Epidemiology and Biometry Oldenburg, Germany, Editor of MIBE

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D. Wege

⁹Medical Service of Public Health Insurances Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany

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Abstract

Summary

The demand for evidence-based health informatics and benchmarking of ‘good’ information systems in health care gives an opportunity to continue reporting on recent papers in the German journal GMS Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (MIBE) here. The publications in focus deal with a comparison of benchmarking initiatives in German-speaking countries, use of communication standards in telemonitoring scenarios, the estimation of national cancer incidence rates and modifications of parametric tests. Furthermore papers in this issue of MIM are introduced which originally have been presented at the Annual Conference of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology. They deal as well with evidence and evaluation of ‘good’ information systems but also with data harmonization, surveillance in obstetrics, adaptive designs and parametrical testing in statistical analysis, patient registries and signal processing.

Keywords

Medical informatics - medical statistics - epidemiology - medical documentation

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