Structure and Challenges of Medical Informatics in Germany: A Commentary

Structure and Challenges of Medical Informatics in Germany

A Commentary

Authors

  • Sylvia Thun Charité Mental Health – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Director, Core Unit eHealth and Interoperability (CEI)
  • Caroline Stellmach Charité Mental Health – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Core Unit eHealth and Interoperability (CEI)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60837/curare.v45i1.1511

Keywords:

medical informatics, interoperability, digitization, telematics infrastructure

Abstract

For quite some time, medicine and informatics were two subject areas that were not seen as linked. Performing medicine today is unimaginable without the error-free collection and efficient exchange of large amounts of data. Such data are not limited to the basic documentation of a patient, but also include findings from imaging procedures and form the basis for therapeutic decision-making. The aim of medical informatics is to provide usable data, information and knowledge for healthcare and it is concerned with all activities necessary to achieve this goal.

Cover des Curare-Heftes mit schwarzem Curare-Schriftzug auf mintfarbenem Grund. Darunter ein Foto des Aufwachraums des neuen Leipziger Nierenzentrums von 1971. Eine Krankenschwester überwacht mit einem Universal-Sichtgerät des Kombinats Medizin-und Labortechnik Leipzig die EKG-Übertragungen von jedem der 6 Hämodialyseplätzen und von den 2 Peritonealdialyseplätzen

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Published

2024-03-20 — Updated on 2022-01-01

Issue

45 (2022) 1 | Computer and Medicine

Section

Thematic Focus

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