van der Maas A A, ten Hoopen A J, ter Hofstede A H
University of Nijmegen, 6500 NB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 Mar-Apr;8(2):126-30. doi: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080126.
The prevailing view of medical informatics as a primarily subservient discipline in health care is challenged. Developments in both general informatics and medical informatics are described to identify desirable properties of modeling languages and tools needed to solve key problems in the application field. For progress in medical informatics, it is considered essential to develop far more formal modeling languages, modeling techniques, and tools. A major aim of this development should be to expel ambiguity from concepts essential to medicine, positioning medical informatics "at the heart of health care."
医学信息学在医疗保健领域主要处于从属地位这一普遍观点受到了挑战。本文描述了通用信息学和医学信息学的发展情况,以确定解决应用领域关键问题所需的建模语言和工具的理想特性。为推动医学信息学的发展,开发更加形式化的建模语言、建模技术和工具被认为至关重要。这一发展的主要目标应是消除医学核心概念中的模糊性,将医学信息学置于“医疗保健的核心位置”。