International Journal of Medical Informatics

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International Journal of Medical Informatics

http://www.elsevier.com:80/inca/publications/store/5/0/6/0/4/0/
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijmedinf 

Content available to subscribers at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13865056

Formerly International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing 

AIMS AND SCOPE

The Journal provides an international medium for dissemination of original
results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical
informatics. 

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.; 

  Organizational, economic, social, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT
  applications in health care;

  Computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic,
  algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified in decision
  theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc.

  Evaluations of educational computer based programs pertaining to medical
  informatics or medicine in general.

The emphasis is on the description of clinically evaluated sytems. 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. 

Contact:

A. Hasman, Editor, hasman@mi.unimaas.nl