Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The last 25 years have been a period of innovation in the area of medical informatics. The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has published, every year for the last quarter century, the Yearbook of Medical Informatics, collating selected papers from various journals in an attempt to provide a summary of the academic medical informatics literature. The objective of this paper is to visualize the evolution of the medical informatics field over the last 25 years according to the frequency of word occurrences in the papers published in the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.

Methods

A literature review was conducted examining the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics between 1992 and 2015. These references were collated into a reference manager appl

SUBMITTER: Yergens DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171502 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature