title: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of The Structural Designing of Medical Informatics Dynamic Encyclopedia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Encyclopedias and their compilation have become so prevalent as a valid cultural medium in the world. The daily development of computer industry and the expansion of various sciences have made indispensable the compilation of electronic, specialized encyclopedias, especially the web-based ones.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is an applied-developmental study conducted in 2014. First, the main terms in the field of medical informatics were gathered using MeSH Online 2014 and the supplementary terms of each were determined, and then the tree diagram of the terms was drawn based on their relationship in MeSH. Based on the studies done by the researchers, the tree diagram of the encyclopedia was drawn with respect to the existing areas in this field, and the terms gathered were put in related domains.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In MeSH, 75 preferred terms together with 249 supplementary ones were indexed. One of the informatics' sub-branches is biomedical informatics and health which itself consists of three sub-divisions of bioinformatics, clinical informatics, and health informatics. Medical informatics which is a subdivision of clinical informatics has developed from the three fields of medical sciences, management and social sciences, and computational sciences and mathematics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical Informatics is created of confluence and fusion and applications of the three major scientific branches include health and biological sciences, social sciences and management sciences, computing and mathematical sciences, and according to that the structure of MeSH is weak for future development of Encyclopedia of Medical Informatics.
authors.affiliation: Health Information Management Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Safdari
authors.affiliation: Health Information Management Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shahmoradi
authors.affiliation: Linguistics and Terminology Research Group, Research, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Molouk-Sadat
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hosseini-Beheshti
authors.affiliation: Institute for Knowledge Management, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmadreza Farzaneh
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Nejad
authors.affiliation: School of Allied Medical Sciences, Health Information Management Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseiniravandi
keywords: Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Medical Informatics; Medical Informatics; Web-based Encyclopedia