METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE

Methods of Information in Medicine discusses the basic methodology and scientific fundamentals of processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care. It publishes original papers, reviews, reports, opinion papers, and editorials in medical informatics, and related disciplines such as medical biometry. Since the Journal's foundation in 1962, progress in information processing methodology and in information and communication technology has greatly changed our societies, and medicine and health care have taken advantage of this progress. Methods of Information in Medicine publishes papers in the whole range of processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care, including research in traditional and in new areas of this expanding field. It includes topics such as health information systems and patient records; diagnosis and therapy in health care; biomedical data, signal, and image interpretation; clinical bioinformatics; clinical data analysis and statistical studies; expert systems and knowledge representation; simulation and modeling.

《医学信息方法》论述了医学和卫生保健中处理数据、信息和知识的基本方法和科学基础。它出版医学信息学和医学生物计量学等相关学科的原始论文、评论、报告、意见论文和社论。自1962年该杂志成立以来，信息处理方法和信息通信技术的进步极大地改变了我们的社会，医学和卫生保健利用了这一进步。《医学信息方法》发表的论文涉及医学和卫生保健领域的整个数据处理、信息和知识领域，包括传统领域和这一不断扩大的领域的新领域的研究。它包括健康信息系统和病人记录等主题;卫生保健中的诊断和治疗;生物医学数据、信号和图像解释;临床生物信息学;临床资料分析与统计研究;专家系统和知识表示;仿真和建模。