Health and clinical management: chronic and acute challenges.
OBJECTIVE
Summarize some of last year's best research in the field of Health and Clinical Management.


METHODS
Synopsis of articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2012.


RESULTS
Five articles, from international peer-reviewed journals, have been selected in this section.


CONCLUSIONS
The selected articles illustrate some of the topics of health and clinical management: from patient safety issues over the possibilities offered by technological devices to building knowledge from data present in electronic patient records.
Service of Medical Informatics, FHVi - Fédération des Hopitaux Vaudois informatique, Bois de Cery, 1008 Prilly, Switzerland. E-mail: daniel.kubias@fhvi.ch.
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D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics