title: Health informatics and the humanities.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Virtual Centre for Health Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark. eh@hum.auc.dk
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hultengren
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006809:Humanities; D008490:Medical Informatics