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Personal health informatics. Editorial.

C A Kulikowski¹, A Geissbuhler

¹Department of Computer Science, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Yearbook of Medical Informatics

|August 15, 2012

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

The 2012 IMIA Yearbook explores personal health informatics, detailing progress and challenges in making health information systems more individualized. It examines the practical and ethical limits of personalizing health data in clinical practice.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Informatics
Health Informatics
Personal Health Informatics

Background:

The 2012 IMIA Yearbook introduces key developments in personal health informatics.
This field impacts research, education, and clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

To provide an editorial introduction to the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
To overview the Yearbook's contents, contributors, and main theme.

Main Methods:

Overview of the Yearbook's theme, purpose, and format.
Acknowledgment of contributions.
Review of recent literature and IMIA Working Group reports.

Main Results:

Highlights progress in personalizing health informatics systems.
Discusses the increasing use of personal health information in clinical decisions.
Identifies challenges in effectively personalizing information within practical and ethical constraints.

Conclusions:

The Yearbook surveys biomedical informatics sub-fields, showing progress and challenges.
Focuses on the opportunities and challenges within personal health informatics.
Provides an overview of the discipline's current state.