Medical Infobahn for Europe

This huge collection of more than 250 papers represents the 2000 Medical Informatics Europe Congress, held in Hanover, Germany, and hosted by the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology. Medical informatics is an interdisciplinary field of applied research that also involves the use of information technologies in medical research, health economics, and health system sciences. A few of the subject areas covered are better and faster documentation, health information systems, modeling and simulation, electronic prescribing, workflow, security, robotics, and telemedicine. Indexed by author but not by subject.

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