Objectives, contents, formats Since its inception in 1992 the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics has been one of the most visible and valuable “products” that the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) provides - not only to its members but to the health and biomedical informatics community at large. Objectives To present an overview of the most original, excellent state-of-the-art research in the area of health and biomedical informatics of the past year. To provide surveys about the recent developments, and comprehensive reviews on relevant topics in this field. To provide information about IMIA.

Target audience

• Health and biomedical informatics scientists in research, education, and practice worldwide.
• Health care professionals interested in current health and biomedical informatics research results.
• Health and biomedical informatics students and postgraduates.
• Scientists and professionals with shared interests in biomedical informatics.

General information

2008, one issue a year ISSN 0026-1270, ISBN-13 978-3-7945-2651-2

Due to changing demands by its readership and new technology and opportunities, from 2006 on the new IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics will be modified in content as well as in its mode of publication. The objective is to position the IMIA Yearbook to meet the future needs of its readership and to substantially broaden its availability to virtually all members of the IMIA family. In particular, surveys, giving overviews of recent developments, and comprehensive introductory reviews on relevant topics in the different fields of health and biomedical informatics, will be added as original articles. 

The new IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics will appear as a supplement of Methods of Information in Medicine, one of the official journals of IMIA. As a consequence, all original papers will then be peer reviewed, Medline indexed, and impact factor listed. The Yearbook will remain a non-profit publication of IMIA, jointly published with Schattauer Verlag.

Contents

The detailed content of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics can be consulted on the editor website (please click here)

• President's Statement
• IMIA Strategic Plan
• Editorial
• Special Section:  Access to Health Information
• Section 1: Health and Clinical Management
• Section 2: Human Factors
• Section 3: Health Information Systems
• Section 4: Sensor, Signal and Imaging Informatics
• Section 5: Decision Support, Knowledge Representation and Management
• Section 6: Education and Consumer Informatics
• Section 7: Bioinformatics
• Reviews
• Research & Education
• History of Medical Informatics
• IMIA/UMIT Award Lecture
• Information on IMIA
• Information on IMIA Regions
• Impressum

Formats

• The Full Electronic Version contains full length original articles and content summaries of the selected best papers.
  
  
• The Paper Version also contains the full length original articles as well as the content summaries of the selected best papers. It appears as a supplement of the journal Methods of Information in Medicine with a size of approximately 250 pages. The Paper Version includes online access to the complete Full Electronic Version.
  
  
• The Standard Electronic Version contains abstracts of the original articles, the foreword from the IMIA President, the editorial, and information on IMIA.

More details on the published formats (please see Ordering Information)