title: Exploring the biomedical and health informatics educational programs in europe.
abstract: The Health Information Technology can improve public health, quality of health care etc. Thus, it is important for professionals to be well educated by training programs. The aim of this paper is to record all the educational programs with specializations in Health Informatics, Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering in European Universities and Institutions. An on-line research was conducted on Scopus, PubMed, Scholar Google, and Google. More than 150 universities and colleges in Europe conduct educational programs for these domains. The majority them, expertise in Biomedical Engineering (31%), 22% of the educational programs correspond to Bioinformatics, while Health Informatics studies have 18%. On the last few years, a growth of Health informatics professionals has been observed in Europe.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics, University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Eirini
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Manifava
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics, University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Aikaterini
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kolokathi
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics, University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantas
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*