Roger France Francis
Louvain University, Louvain, Belgium.
Acta Inform Med. 2014 Feb;22(1):11-5. doi: 10.5455/aim.2014.22.11-15. Epub 2014 Jan 25.
The term "Informatics" was created in 1962 from two words, information and automatic, and covers all techniques, information concepts and applications of computers. Among them, medicine is the field where we will describe some factors of development in Europe since the late sixties. It took some time for obtaining the acceptance of this new terminology worldwide, but today medical informatics is a well defined discipline which had a tremendous development last decades. This paper tries to recall the context and events from the beginning of medical informatics in Europe.
“信息学”一词于1962年由“信息”和“自动”这两个词组合而成,涵盖了计算机的所有技术、信息概念及应用。其中,医学是自六十年代末以来我们将描述欧洲一些发展因素的领域。在全球范围内获得对这一新术语的认可花了一些时间,但如今医学信息学是一门定义明确的学科,在过去几十年里取得了巨大发展。本文试图回顾欧洲医学信息学起步时的背景和事件。