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Issue 2/09: Special Topic "MIE 2008: eHealth Beyond the Horizon" - The 13 selected papers show the breadth of the field of Medical Informatics. Subjects that are covered are information needs determination, information interpretation, information communication, semantic interoperability, classification and ontologies, implementation issues, evaluation studies and image analysis.
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In Issue 1/09 Special Topic on the Occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the Heidelberg/Heilbronn Curriculum of Medical Informatics: Internationally esteemed speakers from Germany, Austria, Sweden, and the USA were invited to describe the current status of selected important themes of medical informatics and to present their views, expectations and recommendations for the future. The Special Topic wants to contribute to the important and required debate on the future of medical informatics.
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Issue 6/08: Like in other parts of the world, especially as in Europe and in North America, medical informatics research in Japan shares the common interests in many fields of medical informatics. The Special Topic wishs to give a novel perspective of current medical informatics activities in this country. The selected articles reflect some representative aspects of the medical informatics researches in Japan.
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Issue 5/2008: Model-based methods offer a revolutionary way to systematically integrate security, privacy and safety requirements into the design of health information systems. The Special Topic provides a source of reference for ongoing research in this young emerging discipline.
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Methods of Information in Medicine discusses the basic methodology and scientific fundamentals of processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care. It publishes original papers, reviews, reports, opinion papers, and editorials in medical informatics/health informatics and related disciplines such as medical biometry.
Since the journal's foundation in 1962, progress in information processing methodology and in information and communication technology has significantly changed our societies. Medicine and health care have taken great advantage of this progress. Methods of Information in Medicine continues to publish papers in the whole range of processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care, including research in traditional as well as in new areas of this expanding field. It includes topics such as health information systems and patient records; diagnosis and therapy in health care; biomedical data, signal, and image interpretation; clinical bioinformatics; clinical data analysis and statistical studies; expert systems and knowledge representation; simulation and modeling.

Methods of Information in Medicine is official journal of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

Target group:
Medical informaticians, health informaticians, biostatisticians, informaticians/computer sciences interested in medicine and healthcare, healthcare professionals and researchers interested in informatics, health and biomedical informatics students

General information:
2009, Volume 48 (6 issues) ISSN 0026-1270

Editor-in-Chief:
R. Haux (Germany)

Associate Editors:
D. Aronsky (USA)
T. Y. Leong (Republic of Singapore)

Senior Consulting Editor:
A. T. McCray (USA)

Senior Editors:
J. H. van Bemmel (The Netherlands)
D. A. B. Lindberg (USA)

Founding Editor:
G. Wagner † (Germany)

Editorial Assistant:
I. Hoffmann (Germany)

Methods of Information in Medicine is official journal of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

Methods of Information in Medicine is official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)

European Journal for Biomedical Informatics - a Schattauer related journal