Jaap Noothoven van Goor Bücher

In Europe, standardization activities in healthcare informatics officially started in the 90s. The papers featured in this publication were presented at a conference which presented the current standing of important activities connected with healthcare informatics/telematics standards and to explore the ways of ensuring international coordination and cooperation worldwide. The publications shows interest from communities from Europe, United States, Australia and Japan. This guarantees the elaboration of high quality implementable healthcare informatics standards, which play an important role in the achievement of better healthcare to the benefit of the patient.

Between 1988 and 1990, a research and development program known as the Advancement of Information in Medicine (AIM) Exploratory Action was initiated by the Commission of the European Community to investigate the application of information technologies and telecommunications (IT&T) in medicine and healthcare. The goal of the program was to ensure that healthcare could ultimately benefit from the developments in informatics and communication technology which were already beginning to revolutionize other sectors such as transport, banking and distribution. This book contains an introduction to the AIM Exploratory Action, as well as contributions by the 42 projects with brief descriptions of their results. These have been divided into the three areas of general interest in which AIM had an active part, namely data protection and confidentiality, patient data cards, and standardization. The book provides a fascinating insight into early days of health informatics, and will be of interest to anyone involved in the field. *Order the ebook here*