title: Can health/medical informatics be regarded as a separate discipline?
abstract: The participants of the panel on education and training in Medical Informatics, concurred that health/medical informatics is today thriving as a separate discipline, despite inevitable uncertainties regarding the future. Conferees discussed the distinctions between physician-built systems and those designed by medical informaticians, focusing on methodology as critical to medical informatics.
authors.affiliation: University of Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Protti
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: van Bemmel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gunzenhüser
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haux
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Warner
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education