Méthodes d'évaluation de la performance hospitalière

L'évaluation de la performance des hôpitaux est un domaine en pleine évolution. Les évaluations se font par questionnaire à des médecins, à des patients et aux autorités publiques ou toute autre institution susceptible de fournir des données statistiques

Security threats and trends in society.

This paper is concerned with what can go wrong in health information systems and focuses attention on new trends in computer technology that might generate a vulnerable structure of opportunities for committing unlawful or unethical acts that could threaten our society. Malicious threats are distinguished from accidental threats. Several of the many threats to security in a health environment are reviewed, as well as new trends in technology and in society that might have an effect on health data security. Particular attention is given to microcomputers, unauthorized access to networks and databases, 'viruses', as well as encryption, memory cards and 'information standards'. Some reasons are given to explain why crimes can be committed in the health care environment

Biographical Lexicon of Public Health: Review

Biographical Lexicon of Public Health: Revie

About the beginnings of medical informatics in Europe

The term "Informatics" was created in 1962 from two words, information and automatic, and covers all techniques, information concepts and applications of computers. Among them, medicine is the field where we will describe some factors of development in Europe since the late sixties. It took some time for obtaining the acceptance of this new terminology worldwide, but today medical informatics is a well defined discipline which had a tremendous development last decades. This paper tries to recall the context and events from the beginning of medical informatics in Europe © Avicena 2014