AUDACIOUS GOALS FOR HEALTH AND BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Citation
Ra. Greenes et Nm. Lorenzi, AUDACIOUS GOALS FOR HEALTH AND BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 5(5), 1998, pp. 395-400
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Medical Informatics","Computer Science Information Systems
ISSN journal
10675027
Volume
5
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
395 - 400
Database
ISI
SICI code
1067-5027(1998)5:5<395:AGFHAB>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The 1998 Scientific Symposium of the American College of Medical Infor matics (ACMI) was devoted to developing visions for the future of heal th care and biomedicine and a strategic agenda for health and biomedic al informatics in support of those visions. This symposium focus was p rompted by the many major changes currently underway in health care de livery, education, and research, as well as in our health and biomedic al enterprises, and by the constantly increasing role of information t echnology in both shaping and enabling these changes. The three audaci ous goals developed for 2008 are a virtual health care databank, a nat ional health care knowledge base, and a personal clinical health recor d.