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Peter A. Bath HEALTH INFORMATICS J 2008; 14; 243 DOI: 10.1177/1460458208096553 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jhi.sagepub.com
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Copyright 2008 SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC) Vol 14(4): 243245 [1460-4582(200701)14:4; 243245; DOI: 10.1177/1460458208096553] www.sagepublications.com
Special Issue From research to development to implementation: challenges in health informatics and health information management
This special issue arises from the Twelfth International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2007) hosted by the University of Shefeld, 1820 July 2007. This annual conference is organized by the Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR) at the University of Shefeld, and returned to Shefeld following successful conferences organized in collaboration with City Liberal Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece (ISHIMR 2005) and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (ISHIMR 2006). The theme for the conference From Research to Development to Implementation: Challenges in Health Informatics and Health Information Management was developed to support researchers and practitioners in disseminating and presenting their work and to promote discussion on the challenges of undertaking research and development in information management and information and communications technology (ICT) in healthcare. This special issue contains the best papers from the conference, as selected by the Health Informatics Journal editor Rob Procter following the ISHIMR peer review process. In addition to encouraging those involved in researching, developing and implementing information and ICT interventions in healthcare to present their work, ISHIMR encourages health informatics and health information management researchers and practitioners to discuss areas of interest. The distinction between health informatics and health information management has been discussed recently [1]. However, ISHIMR emphasizes the overlap between these areas, and what brings them together is a common interest in how information and ICT can be used to improve health and healthcare. While the papers were selected by Rob Procter for their quality, they represent an interesting cross-section of articles describing research, development and implementation
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Bath Editorial
The nal paper, by Guillaume and Bath, describes a content analysis of mass media sources in relation to the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine scare that affected the UK in the late 1990s and the early years of the twenty-rst century. The study analysed 227 articles published in ve different information sources during a 2 month episode of the scare. The paper highlights some important issues regarding the role of the mass media as a health information source for parents. Finally, I would like to thank Rob Procter for continuing the tradition established by the former editor Chris Dowd, and the former Director of CHIMR Dr Barry Eaglestone, of publishing the best ISHIMR conference papers in the Health Informatics Journal. Not only does this provide authors with the incentive and opportunity of having their paper published in the journal in addition to the conference proceedings, but it provides a wider audience for the dissemination of work in this important area. Peter A. Bath University of Shefeld
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1 Bath P A. Health informatics: current issues and challenges. Journal of Information Science 2008; 34 (4); 50118. 2 MacDonald J, Bath P A, Booth A. Healthcare managers decision making: ndings of a small scale exploratory study. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 3 Kerr K A, Norris T, Stockdale R. The strategic management of data quality in health care. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 4 Paterson G I, Grant A M, Soroka S D. Topic maps for exploring nosological, lexical, semantic and HL7 structures for clinical data. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 5 Seeley H, Urquhart C. Action research in developing knowledge networks. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 6 Vidrighin C, Potolea R. ProICET: a cost-sensitive system for prostate cancer data. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 7 Mirza F, Norris T, Stockdale R. Mobile technologies and the holistic management of chronic diseases. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000. 8 Guillaume L, Bath P A. A content analysis of mass media sources in relation to the MMR vaccine scare. Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14 (4); 000000.
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