Audacious goals for health and biomedical informatics in the new millennium.
The 1998 Scientific Symposium of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) was devoted to developing visions for the future of health care and biomedicine and a strategic agenda for health and biomedical informatics in support of those visions. This symposium focus was prompted by the many major changes currently underway in health care delivery, education, and research, as well as in our health and biomedical enterprises, and by the constantly increasing role of information technology in both shaping and enabling these changes. The three audacious goals developed for 2008 are a virtual health care databank, a national health care knowledge base, and a personal clinical health record.
Greenes
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Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. greenes@harvard.edu
Lorenzi
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006040:Goals; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized