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Educational Problems in Teaching Health Informatics to Medical Students

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At the very beginning of the development of medical or health informatics the approach was necessarily fragmentary and dispersed over many special medical fields, restricted mainly to the use of computers in medical practice and research. Many believed at that time that the role of computers is primarily in the improvement of existing medical procedures, i.e. that computing is applied as a technical or methodological innovation in medicine and health care. Today it is widely recognized that the scope and aims of medical informatics are broader than simply data processing in already existing medical procedures. Among several definitions of medical informatics, the one formulated according to Reichertz (1), stating that medical informatics is a science of analysis, documentation, steering, control and synthesis of information processes within the health care system, meets at best our present views. This definition satisfies most authors which try to prove that medical informatics is a scientific field belonging to medecine (2) or even a basic medical science (3).

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  1. Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Medical Faculty, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

    Gj. Deželić

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  1. North East Thames Regional Health Authority, 40, Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 3QR, Great Britain

    B. Barber

  2. Département de Biophysique et de Biomathématiques, Université Paris VI, 91, boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 13ème, France

    F. Grémy

  3. Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Statistik und Biomathematik, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Marchioninistr. 15, D-8000, München 70, Deutschland

    K. Überla

  4. Institut für Dokumentation, Information und Statistik, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-6900, Heidelberg 1, Deutschland

    G. Wagner

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Deželić, G. (1979). Educational Problems in Teaching Health Informatics to Medical Students. In: Barber, B., Grémy, F., Überla, K., Wagner, G. (eds) Medical Informatics Berlin 1979. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93120-8_8

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