title: Oral history and health informatics: mutual support.
abstract: Oral history is 'the interviewing of eyewitness participants in the events of the past for the purposes of historical reconstruction'. It can make a specific and important contribution to the study of health informatics by adding valuable information to the existing record. At the same time the technology of informatics could facilitate in general the acquisition, storage and retrieval of oral history interviews for research.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College, London, UK.
authors.forename: Humphrey
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gyde
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D048088:Informatics / Q000266:history*; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*