Christine Connelly, the NHS director general for informatics, acknowledged slow progress in introducing the sophisticated electronic systems that are supposed to track patients as they move through different stages of treatment and discharge from hospital.
In December 2015, the final version of the GeoDCAT-AP specification was released by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Publications Office of the European Union (PO), the Directorates-General for Informatics and Communications Networks, Content & Technology (CONNECT) of the European Commission.
Health informatics and general practice journals were searched and results reviewed.
This architecture follows a general trend in imaging informatics aiming toward the development of open source components in an open architecture that can easily be expandable [8].
The lessons of this past work are also applicable, however, to biomedical and health professional curricula in general, and to biomedical informatics training, in particular.
"We need something to encourage more progress in this area," says Yasuharu Suematsu, former director general of the National Institute of Informatics and head of the panel, which reported this month to the Ministry of Education.
This paper shows the application of a type of formal software verification technique known as lightweight model checking to a domain model in healthcare informatics in general and public health surveillance systems in particular.
Support for bioinformatics, or informatics in general, goes beyond the need for informed classroom instructors.
