title: [Looking for evidence-based medical informatics].
abstract: e-Health is experiencing a difficult time. On the one side, the forecast is for a bright digital health future created by precision medicine and smart devices. On the other hand, most large scale e-health projects struggle to make a difference and are often controversial. Both futures fail because they are not evidence-based. Medical informatics should follow the example of evidence-based medicine, i.e. conduct rigorous research that gives us evidence to solve real world problems, synthesise that evidence and then apply it strictly. We already have the tools for creating a different universe. What we need is evidence, will, a culture of learning, and hard work.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Coiera
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*