[...]... usage of telemedicine consultations in daily clinical practice The author describes the process of teleconsultation along with sample schemes of systems, parties of this process and its roles Also, the main steps of clinical teleconsultation (determination of necessity for teleconsultation, preparation of medical information, observance of ethics and law conditions, and preparation of conclusion) are... published on ‘standardization of medical informatics and to the best of our knowledge this research is the first of its kind Besides facilitating better understanding of medical informatics this research is expected to further its adoption It is also believed that a better understanding of the meaning of medical informatics could improve communication among the many professionals and organizations and may... Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health provides a compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes and acronyms Additionally, this volume features short papers authored by leading experts offering an in-depth description of key terms and concepts related to different areas, issues and trends in various areas of distributed medical informatics, e-health and m-health... this evolution, researchers and practitioners have made notable attempts to define medical informatics As a result, today we have a noteworthy collection of peer-reviewed definitions of medical informatics These definitions not only enlighten us with different perspectives and applications of medical informatics but they also provide a measure of the proliferation of this domain’s content Many of these... learning environments in health (for patient education, medical students or healthcare professionals), hospital information systems & e-health cards, standardization aspects in e-health related communications, socio/ethical & economic advantages of the new m-health applications, ethical issues in e-health and m-health, evaluation of e-health communication systems, security issues of telemedicine, distributed. .. organization and management of information in support of medical research, education, and patient care ix 1987 Lindberg, D.A.B (1987) a) Medical informatics attempts to provide the theoretical and scientific basis for the application of computer and automated information systems to biomedicine and health affairs x 1987 Lindberg, D.A.B (1987) b) Medical informatics studies biomedical information, data, and. .. that medical informatics holds both realized and potential importance for the science and practice of medicine vi 1986 Collen, M.F (1986) Medical informatics is a new knowledge domain of computer and information science, engineering and technology in all fields of health and medicine, including research, education and practice vii 1986 Steering Committee on evaluation of medical info science in medical. .. and information management tasks of medical and health care, and biomedical research, and with the application of information sciences and technology to those tasks xiii 1988 Shortliffe, E.H (1988) Medical informatics draws on, and contributes to, multiple disciplines in the health sciences and information sciences xiv 1990 Blois, M.S and Shortliffe, E.H (1990) Medical informatics is the rapidly developing... the storage, retrieval, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making xv 1990 Greenes, R.A and Shortliffe, E.H (1990) Medical informatics is the field that concerns itself with the cognitive, information processing, and communication tasks of medical practice, education, and research, including the information science and the technology to support... power of automated classifiers and reasoners Chapter V Overview and Analysis of Electronic Health Record Standards 84 Spyros Kitsiou, University of Macedonia Economic and Social Science, Greece Vicky Manthou, University of Macedonia Economic and Social Science, Greece Maro Vlachopoulou, University of Macedonia Economic and Social Science, Greece This chapter provides a brief overview of the . (determination of necessity for teleconsul- tation, preparation of medical information, observance of ethics and law conditions, and preparation of conclusion). h1" alt="" Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health Athina A. Lazakidou University of Peloponnese, Greece Konstantinos M.