The Journal provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of
medical informatics. The Journal emphasizes the evaluation of systems in healthcare settings.
The scope of the journal covers:
• Information systems, including national or international registration systems, hospital information systems, departmental
and/or physician's office systems, document handling systems, electronic medical record systems, standardization, systems integration
etc.;
• Computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic, algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified
in decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc.
• Educational computer based programs pertaining to
medical informatics or medicine in general.
• Organizational, economic, social, clinical impact, ethical and cost-benefit aspects
of IT applications in health care.
Short technical communications concerning (solved) problems in implementing or using existing
information systems are welcome. Review articles concerning subjects falling in the scope of the journal are also invited.
