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Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI) have been essential catalysts for achievements in medical research and healthcare applications over the past 50 years. These include increasingly sophisticated information systems and data bases for documentation ...Open Access 1–11
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In this essay we will discuss capacity development in health informatics research and application, which to us is among the major contributions of Professor John Mantas scholarship. Specifically, driven by the inspiration of his scholarship we will ...Open Access 12–18
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The role of the field of informatics in medical imaging is vital; novel or adapted informatics’ core methods can be employed to realise innovative information processing and engineering of medical images. As such, imaging informatics can assist in the ...Open Access 19–29
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As an indigenous scientist, I have dedicated all my professional life to protecting people using informatics for public policy to the privacy of users, patients, clients, and citizens as a human right and obligation as part of the United Nations ...Open Access 30–37
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In this contribution some achievements and milestones in the field of medical informatics, especially concerning decision support, as perceived by the author, are presented. The author focuses on those topics with respect to decision support that during ...Open Access 38–52
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Technological advancements have introduced wearable and passive monitoring tools that can capture aspects of daily living, health and well-being in homes and communities. Personal Health Informatics is the study of any information system, tool or ...Open Access 53–63
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This paper highlights some of the challenges, achievements and collaborations using health informatics education and research as a change agent in which I have been involved over the last 40 years. The Open Software Library (OSL) was a specialist ...Open Access 64–76
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This chapter describes the milestones and outcomes of Health and Human Services Informatics (HHSI) education programmes at master and doctoral degree level. In Finland, since the year 2000 the programmes have been based on the International Medical ...Open Access 77–92
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The field of biomedical and health informatics has taken its rightful place in the development and evaluation of methods and systems that aim to help those working in health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research fields to optimally use data,...Open Access 93–107
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Background:
Health information systems (HIS) represent an essential part of the infrastructure
for the delivery of good health care.
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To present the author’s personal views on HIS developments over the last decades and
on the opportunities ...
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Objectives:
To clarify the views of the general population of two countries (US and Japan), concerning
handling of their medical records electronically, disclosure of the name of disease,
secondary usage of information, compiling their records into a ...
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Nursing Informatics emerged in Australia during the early 1980s and drove the Professional development and acceptance of Health Informatics. Milestones achieved include the development of a national journal, the establishment of the Health Informatics ...Open Access 149–163
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The whole healthcare system is evolving fast due to environmental pressure related to pandemics, climate change, personnel shortages, and financial limitations, to name but a few. Nurses are central actors in the sustainability of healthcare systems. ...Open Access 164–176
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The resurgence of machine learning AI has triggered the importance of collecting “personal big data” over a long period of time from wearable devices and EHRs. Collecting data from this large number of variables over a significant period of time has ...Open Access 177–179
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The history of medicine is punctuated by conquests, discoveries and revolutions. It is also marked by questioning. It is made of doubts and certainties. In this thousand years old history, certain recent battles bear witness to these questionings, such ...Open Access 180–189
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Cyber security attacks evidence has shown that many sectors and industries are still at an insufficient level of readiness to counter these threats, including healthcare organizations and the entire healthcare industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...Open Access 190–202
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The aim of this paper is to share knowledge and experiences of a professional lifetime in the field of Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI), almost from the time of the initiation of the domain until today. The achievements and the milestones reached ...Open Access 203–219
