Health informatics and the humanities.
Researchers and professionals from the Humanities are new within the science of health informatics, where researchers and professionals from the natural sciences have so far de-fined the problems and their solutions. A cross-disciplinary collaboration can be difficult due to factors such as status and competition, to insufficient co-operation qualifications, and due to different definitions of problems. This paper presents examples of differently formulated health informatics problems. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is necessary but collaboration demands openness, curiosity, and readiness from researchers and professionals as well as it demands know-edge of the processes in cross-disciplinary cooperation. Considerations for cross-disciplines were actualized with the foundation in Denmark of the cross-disciplinary institution: The Virtual Centre for Health Informatics.
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Virtual Centre for Health Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark. eh@hum.auc.dk
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006809:Humanities; D008490:Medical Informatics