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Past and Next 10 Years of Medical Informatics

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More than 10 years ago Haux et al. tried to answer the question how health care provision will look like in the year 2013. A follow-up workshop was held in Braunschweig, Germany, for 2 days in May, 2013, with 20 invited international experts in biomedical and health informatics. Among other things it had the objectives to discuss the suggested goals and measures of 2002 and how priorities on MI research in this context should be set from the viewpoint of today. The goals from 2002 are now as up-to-date as they were then. The experts stated that the three goals: “patient-centred recording and use of medical data for cooperative care”; “process-integrated decision support through current medical knowledge” and “comprehensive use of patient data for research and health care reporting” have not been reached yet and are still relevant. A new goal for ICT in health care should be the support of patient centred personalized (individual) medicine. MI as an academic discipline carries out research concerning tools that support health care professionals in their work. This research should be carried out without the pressure that it should lead to systems that are immediately and directly accepted in practice.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Birger Haarbrandt and Tobias von Bargen from the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of the University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and the Hannover Medical School as they did the workshop’s recordings and supported us in documenting the workshop for this paper in particular.

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  1. Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Str. 69, 55131, Mainz, Germany

    Frank Ückert

  2. UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Eduard Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, 6060, Hall in Tirol, Austria

    Elske Ammenwerth

  3. promedtheus Informationssysteme für die Medizin AG, Scheidt 1, 41812, Erkelenz, Germany

    Carl Dujat

  4. Health Informatics Microprogrammes, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Avenue N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5 N4, Canada

    Andrew Grant

  5. Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany

    Reinhold Haux, Michael Marschollek & Klaus-Hendrik Wolf

  6. Department for Computing Science, Carl v. Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

    Andreas Hein

  7. Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center of the University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 346, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Achim Hochlehnert

  8. Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University Medical Center of University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 305, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Petra Knaup-Gregori

  9. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, The State University of New Jersey, Hill Center, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ, 08855, USA

    Casimir Kulikowski

  10. Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodastrian University of Athens, Papadiamantopoulou 123, 11527, Goudi, Athens, Greece

    John Mantas

  11. Biomedical Informatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Madrid - Institute of Technology, Facultad de Informática (UPM), Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Victor Maojo

  12. Assis Moura eHealth, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Lincoln Moura

  13. BITZ - Center of Informatics and Technology, Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Maik Plischke

  14. Medical Informatics in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Rudolf-Buchheim-Straße 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany

    Rainer Röhrig

  15. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-University, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Jürgen Stausberg

  16. Division of Medical Informatics and Management, Chiba University Hospital, Inohana Campus 1-8-1, lnohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 260-8677, Japan

    Katsuhiko Takabayashi

  17. Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center of the University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107, Leipzig, Germany

    Alfred Winter

  18. Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arie Hasman

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Special Issue: Health Care in the Information Society - a Prognosis for the Year 2013

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Ückert, F., Ammenwerth, E., Dujat, C. et al. Past and Next 10 Years of Medical Informatics. J Med Syst 38, 74 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0074-5

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