Summary Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics / medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives concerning education in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI),

OBJECTIVE: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today. METHOD: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only. RESULTS: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn. CONCLUSIONS: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.

... Few, if any scientific discipline achieved such enormous and rapid development, improvement and implementation in healthcare practice as it is case with medical informatics. Although a relatively young scientific field of biomedicine its achievements significantly improve all of health care its segments at any level in any health care system in any country of the world. In just a few decades of the last century, Medical Informatics entered all forms of education and medical practice. For its achievements and its application in practice are meritorious many persons and events. One cannot deny their immeasurable impact on scientific trends in biomedicine, but also to the social development in general. Some of the historical trends seem to resemble the uncontrollable events that shape the people that we then referred to as the famous, in one way or another.Famous people over the centuries and decades started a heavy wheel of scientific history and their actions should be remembered as a boon, and their personalities should emerge in full light as historical monoliths. For the unenlightened the history is a collection of true legends and collection of recognizable characters, and if it does not exist, or it is briefly described, then these characters are not recognized. Medical informatics is a rare scientific discipline to which are linked numerous events and numerous characters whose work is recognized almost everywhere and in every place within educational and healthcare institutions. Unfortunately, these figures and their findings hardly anyone knows in more details. The book we have in front of us is a significant contribution to better knowledge about persons and events related to Medical Informatics and its pillars, which they raised and whose foundations still stand strong...

This article proposes a definition of the field of Health and Biomedical Informatics, in line with recent international developments. According to the authors, there are several myths or misconception concerning the future development of this scientific and ...