title: The future of medical informatics. Some perspectives of intra- and inter-institutional information systems.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Presenting the author's point of view on chances and challenges of medical informatics in research, education, and practice of information management, especially in the field of regional as well as institutional health information systems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Collecting and interpreting current issues concerning (health) information systems and their management from selected references.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There are challenging research topics concerning information management, IT service management in small health care units, reference models, trustworthy architectures, service-oriented architectures. Medical informatics requires multidisciplinarity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medicine and health care need medical informatics as a scientific, researching discipline.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Haertelstr. 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. alfred.winter@imise.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends