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Yearb Med Inform 2007; 16(01): 6-8
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638519
Editorial
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Biomedical Informatics for Sustainable Health Systems. Editorial

A. Geissbuhler
1   Department of Imaging and Medical Informatics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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R. Haux
2   Institute for Medical Informatics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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C. Kulikowski
3   Department of Computer Science, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
› Author Affiliations
The editors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the referees and guest editors. They would also like to thank the authors of the invited surveys, reviews and historic papers and the contributors to the Research and Education Section They are most appreciative of the considerable skill, time, and effort devoted by the Managing Editors, especially the Executive Managing Editor Elske Ammenwerth and by the Section Managing Editors, Joachim Bergmann, Oliver Bott, Birgit Brigl, Elke Lang, Christian Lovis, Michael Marschollek, Stéphane Meystre, and Ralf Westphal. They also wish to thank the Editorial Assistant, Martina Hutter, from the Medical Faculty at the University of Heidelberg, without whose untiring efforts the Yearbook would not have been completed. The editors also wish to thank the members of the Advisory Board for their invaluable contributions to the planning of this Yearbook. They are: Marion Ball, IBM Center for Healthcare Management, Baltimore, MD, USA, Jan H. van Bemmel, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Alexa McCray, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. The referees who contributed to the selection of articles in the 2007 Yearbook of Medical Informatics were: Jos Aarts, The Netherlands Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands Hans Åhlfeldt, Sweden Lincoln de Assis Moura, Brazil Knut Bernstein, Denmark Emma-Jane Berridge, United Kingdom Cynthia Brandt, USA Karen Courtney, USA Michel Dojat, France David Dorr, USA Marius Fieschi, France Martin Fischer, Germany Walter Gall, Austria Dragan Gamberger, Croatia Sebastian Garde, Australia Heinz Handels, Germany Wolfgang Heiden, Germany Michael Hogarth, USA Dimitar Hristovski, Slovenia Michel Joubert, France Daniel Keysers, Germany Jeongeun Kim, Korea Isaac Kohane, USA György Kozmann, Hungary Andy H. Lee, Australia Thomas Lehmann, Germany Yasushi Matsumura, Japan Silvia Miksch, Austria Jochen Moehr, Canada Peter Moorman, The Netherlands Anne Moen, Norway Henning Müller, Switzerland Juha Mykkanen, Finland Patricia Neafsey, USA Stefan Pantazi, Canada Silvana Quaglini, Italy Soumya Raychaudhuri, USA Niilo Saranummi, Finland Thomas Schabetsberger, Austria Amnon Shabo, Israel Yuval Shahar, Israel Selma Supek, Croatia Vojtech Svatek, Czech Republic Nikki Tiff in, South Africa Manolis Tsiknakis, Greece Frank Ückert, Germany Wim van Drongelen, USA Mark van Gils, Finland Gudrun Wagenknecht, Germany Dongwen Wang, USA Adam Wilcox, USA Ulrike Wittig, Germany Shuenn-Tsong Young, Taiwan
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Publication Date:
05 March 2018 (online)

 
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Summary

Objectives

To provide an editorial introduction to the 2007 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.

Methods

A brief overview of the main theme of “Biomedical Informatics for Sustainable Health Systems”, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2007 IMIA Yearbook.

Results

In resonance with the MEDINFO 2007 conference theme “Building Sustainable Health Systems”, this issue of the Yearbook examines the role of healthcare informatics in helping face the challenge of sustainability for our health systems, through a number of original contributions, and selected papers published during the past 12 months.

Conclusion

This timely topic, along with the review and surveys on the main streams of research in medical informatics, offer a complete overview of the development of our field. This current state of affairs is put in the perspective of the fortieth birthday of IMIA, reflecting on the past achievements of the Association, and outlining its potential to continue shaping the world of medical informatics.


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Keywords

Editorial - 2007 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics - sustainability of health systems - surveys of biomedical informatics - reviews of biomedical informatics - history of biomedical informatics - IMIA and its societies

 


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