ArticleYearbook of medical informatics2014
On determining factors for good research in biomedical and health informatics. Some lessons learned.
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- Research Strategies for Biomedical and Health Informatics. Some Thought-provoking and Critical Proposals to Encourage Scientific Debate on the Nature of Good Research in Medical Informatics.Methods of information in medicine · 2017Article
- Improving Bridging from Informatics Theory to Practice.Applied clinical informatics · 2015Article
- Assessing the prognoses on Health care in the information society 2013--thirteen years after.Journal of medical systems · 2014Article
- Commentaries on the IMIA Award of Excellence Lecture by Reinhold Haux.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveWhat are the determining factors for good research in medical informatics or, from a broader perspective, in biomedical and health informatics?
methodFrom the many lessons learned during my professional career, I tried to identify a fair sampling of such factors. On the occasion of giving the IMIA Award of Excellence lecture during MedInfo 2013, they were presented for discussion.
resultsSixteen determining factors (df) have been identified: early identification and promotion (df1), appropriate education (df2), stimulating persons and environments (df3), sufficient time and backtracking opportunities (df4), breadth of medical informatics competencies (df5), considering the necessary preconditions for good medical informatics research (df6), easy access to high-quality knowledge (df7), sufficient scientific career opportunities (df8), appropriate conditions for sustainable research (df9), ability to communicate and to solve problems (df10), as well as to convey research results (df11) in a highly inter- and multidisciplinary environment, ability to think for all and, when needed, taking the lead (df12), always staying unbiased (df13), always keeping doubt (df14), but also always trying to provide solutions (df15), and, finally, being aware that life is more (df16).
conclusionsMedical Informatics is an inter- and multidisciplinary discipline "avant la lettre". Compared to monodisciplinary research, inter- and multidisciplinary research does not only provide significant opportunities for solving major problems in science and in society. It also faces considerable additional challenges for medical informatics as a scientific field. The determining factors, presented here, are in my opinion crucial for conducting successful research and for developing a research career. Since medical informatics as a field has today become an important driving force for research progress, especially in biomedicine and health care, but also in fields like computer science, it may be helpful to consider such factors in relation with research and education in our discipline.
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