Open Access
Yearb Med Inform 2016; 25(S 01): S92-S102
DOI: 10.15265/IY-2016-032
Original Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Biomedical and Health Informatics Education – the IMIA Years

J. Mantas
1   Health Informatics Laboratory, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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Further Information

Correspondence to:

John Mantas
Health Informatics Laboratory
Department of Nursing
School of Health Sciences
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece

Publication History

02 August 2016

Publication Date:
06 March 2018 (online)

 

Summary

Objective: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today.

Method: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only.

Results: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn.

Conclusions: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.


 



Correspondence to:

John Mantas
Health Informatics Laboratory
Department of Nursing
School of Health Sciences
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece