International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 12 , Pages 795-808 , December 2006

Individualization, globalization and health – about sustainable information technologies and the aim of medical informatics

Received 2 March 2006 ,Accepted 24 May 2006.

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☆ Written, extended version of a keynote presentation, given at the Colloquium ‘Reflections and Realities: How Much Impact Has Our Health/Medical Informatics Research Had On Our Health Care Systems?’ held in honor of Professor Jochen Moehr on 4 June 2005, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In addition, parts of two other invited lectures, the author gave on 17 February 2005, in Bialystok, Poland [1] and on 13 November 2005, in Kwei-Shan, Tai-Yuan, Taiwan [2] have been included.

PII: S1386-5056(06)00159-6

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.05.045

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 12 , Pages 795-808 , December 2006

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