Masić I, Ridanović Z
Centar za medicinsku informatiku, Medicinski fakultet Sarajevo.
Med Arh. 1993;47(1-2):13-23.
Time of information in which we live resulted in the increase of the amount of the information exponential growth of the new kind of knowledge, flourishing of the familiar ones, and the appearance of the new sciences. Medical (health) informatics occupies the central place in all the segments of modern medicine in the past thirty years--in practical work, education and scientific research. In all that, computers have taken over the most important role and are used intensively for the development of the health information systems. Following activities develop intensively within the area of health informatics: health- documentation, health-statistics, health-informatics and biomedical scientific and professional information. Starting with the fact that in this century and especially after the World War II, great advancement in bio-medical sciences is visible, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is clear that as a result of the above increase in scientific research, in the number of scientists, and funds invested in scientific institutions, equipment and documentation, is visible. Innovations and developments in science demand analytic-synthetic processing of scientific information and their utilisation research. This can be realised by collecting sources (documents) for reading, noting, editing, discovering-which is the integral part of scientific developmental research. Scholarly journals as well as the publications that follow the latest events in the world of science, and inform their users in the area of bio-medicine quickly and efficiently, play an important role in the professional literature.
我们生活的信息时代导致了信息量的增加、新型知识的指数级增长、已有知识的繁荣以及新学科的出现。在过去三十年里，医学（健康）信息学在现代医学的各个领域——实际工作、教育和科研中都占据着核心地位。在这一切当中，计算机发挥了最重要的作用，并被广泛用于健康信息系统的开发。以下活动在健康信息学领域密集开展：健康文档、健康统计、健康信息学以及生物医学科学与专业信息。从本世纪尤其是第二次世界大战之后生物医学科学取得巨大进步这一事实来看，在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，显然由于上述科研方面的增长，科学家数量增加，以及对科研机构、设备和文档投入的资金增加，这一切都是有目共睹的。科学上的创新与发展需要对科学信息进行分析综合处理并开展利用研究。这可以通过收集供阅读、注释、编辑、发现的资料来源（文献）来实现，而这是科学发展研究不可或缺的一部分。学术期刊以及那些追踪科学界最新动态并能迅速、高效地向生物医学领域用户通报情况的出版物，在专业文献中发挥着重要作用。
