About the Beginnings of Medical Informatics in Europe

The term “Informatics” was created in 1962 from two words, information and automatic, and covers all techniques, information concepts and applications of computers. Among them, medicine is the field where we will describe some factors of development in Europe since the late sixties. It took some tim...

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Autor principal: Roger France, Francis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24648614
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2014.22.11-15
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spelling pubmed-39479352014-03-19 About the Beginnings of Medical Informatics in Europe Roger France, Francis Acta Inform Med Review The term “Informatics” was created in 1962 from two words, information and automatic, and covers all techniques, information concepts and applications of computers. Among them, medicine is the field where we will describe some factors of development in Europe since the late sixties. It took some time for obtaining the acceptance of this new terminology worldwide, but today medical informatics is a well defined discipline which had a tremendous development last decades. This paper tries to recall the context and events from the beginning of medical informatics in Europe. AVICENA 2014-01-25 2014-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3947935/ /pubmed/24648614 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2014.22.11-15 Text en © 2014 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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