Lovis C
Service of Medical Informatics, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Yearb Med Inform. 2007:19-21.
To summarize major current trends and research in the field of sustainable health care systems.
Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007.
Four excellent articles, four nations and four international peer-reviewed journals representing some important aspects of the research in this field have been selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007. The first paper focuses on health care spending and use of information technologies in OECD countries; the second paper presents an original model and framework to describe and evaluate the risks and safety of e-health systems; the third paper, a two-part paper, reviews several models to support lifetime personal health records and proposes some original approach to this problem. Finally, the last paper presents the evaluation of feasibility, potential, problems and risks of an Internet-based telemedicine network in developing countries of Africa and challenges and opportunities that IT can bring to developing countries.
Sustainability in health care and information technologies is a young but fast growing domain. This new section of the yearbook is promised to a rich future as illustrated in the variety and the importance of the challenges addressed by this 2007 selection.
总结可持续医疗保健系统领域当前的主要趋势和研究情况。
对入选《2007年国际医学信息学会年鉴》的文章进行概述。
已为《2007年国际医学信息学会年鉴》挑选了四篇优秀文章、四个国家以及四个国际同行评审期刊，它们代表了该领域研究的一些重要方面。第一篇论文聚焦于经合组织国家的医疗保健支出和信息技术使用情况；第二篇论文提出了一个原创模型和框架，用于描述和评估电子卫生系统的风险与安全性；第三篇论文分为两部分，回顾了几种支持终身个人健康记录的模型，并针对此问题提出了一些原创方法。最后，第四篇论文介绍了非洲发展中国家基于互联网的远程医疗网络的可行性、潜力、问题和风险评估，以及信息技术给发展中国家带来的挑战和机遇。
医疗保健和信息技术领域的可持续性是一个新兴但发展迅速的领域。正如2007年所选文章所涉及挑战的多样性和重要性所示，年鉴的这一新板块前景广阔。
