Information and the information approach: from informatics to globalistics

Information is understood as a universal attribute of matter and is generally viewed as reflected diversity. It is asserted that informatics is the science of information and the laws of its existence, transfer, and development. It is supposed that the information approach forms a distinct branch of informatics, i.e., information globalistics, an essentially new trend of global research.     

情报学多学科研究之评价和超越——关于研究方法论的尝试性反思

目前情报学研究领域的主流范式是多学科研究视角。但多学科研究视角在保持情报学学科的学术独立性,促进学科的理论严密性,整合研究兴趣的多元性等方面存在缺陷和不足。因此,有必要通过分解情报学的研究层次,选择学科研究方法论,构建学科理论结构框架,培植特定的学科文化等方式,最终形成独立的情报学学科范式。     

Using clinical vignette assignments to teach medical informatics

In response to curricular changes, many academic health sciences librarians have participated in curriculum planning and/or developed informatics course requirements for students enrolled at health sciences universities. This article describes the use of clinical vignette assignments, student journal club activities, and vignette-type multiple choice questions to teach and assess skills related to managing biomedical information, communicating effectively, basic computing, and life-long learning.     

Medical informatics: the Pittsburgh experience

This column reports the results of a survey conducted of medical librarian participants in medical informatics training at the University of Pittsburgh. This small study was undertaken in order to identify issues in training different kinds of library and information science practitioners in medical informatics.     

数据挖掘:情报学的发展

从数据挖掘的概念出发,分析情报学发展面临的问题和数据挖掘技术给情报学领域带来的影响,说明数据挖掘技术不仅提升了情报学的研究深度和关联度,而且给情报学的发展带来了机遇与挑战。     

再论竞争情报与情报学的发展

从情报的词源与情报学理论来看,智能性是情报的基本属性.作为智能属性的情报,既是一种产品,又是一种过程,而情报学是以情报为研究对象,探索信息激活规律的科学.竞争情报坚持了以情报为研究对象,同时因为情报所蕴含的智能性而成为情报学研究的核心领域与发展方向.     

Health informatics in Chile: responding to health reforms

Chile is in the throes of health reforms aimed at ensuring that every person with specified chronic diseases receives timely and high quality care. CITs are crucial to the achievement of this vision because they make it possible to manage information and knowledge in a more efficient way. Until a few years ago, the incorporation of CITs was limited to individual initiatives, but since 2004 there has been a master plan to coordinate this task in the public sector. Some projects are now operative but there is still a long road to travel before getting to our destination. One of the most underdeveloped areas is the clinical applications of health CITs, especially the incorporation of biomedical knowledge to clinical practice. The two biggest challenges facing the Digital Agenda for the health care system are (i) to develop a critical mass of clinicians and health related professionals with expertise in Health Informatics; and (ii) to foster technical integration of the private and public sectors of the health care market.     

医学信息学专业开设物联网技术相关课程的必要性

介绍了物联网技术的基本概念,分析了医药卫生领域有关物联网技术的国家政策以及应用现状,阐述了医学信息学专业开设物联网技术相关课程的必要性和可行性.     

Defining and assessing medical informatics competencies

As academic health sciences libraries assume larger roles in informatics instruction within medical school curricula, librarians are challenged to develop useful and accurate measures for assessing the effectiveness of instructional approaches. The need for this evaluation has intensified as medical schools increase their emphasis on integration of curriculum content and shift to competency-based education and assessment of medical students. This paper reports on a pilot project developed at Dahlgren Memorial Library, Georgetown University Medical Center, for two courses using an instructional intervention and tailored assignment for assessing student competencies.     

Sociocultural integration of humanity and informatics

Any type of integrity includes certain parts and aspects. Social integration is based on culture and this is manifested in the history of any separate nation or state, as well as on the scale of all of humanity. In culture, the determinant role belongs to various forms of social information and progress in informatics makes this increasingly evident. In the globalization era, the information factors of human sociocultural integration are of special interest for science and social practice.     

Crisis manifestations for civilization and informatics

The world community has been living under the conditions of a deepening financial-economic crisis in the last year. The wish inevitably arises to look at the problem from a wider perspective, in the context of the crisis phenomena of civilization as a whole. It turns out that all of them are organically bound with human nature. Only overcoming these crisis states can ensure the steady development of humanity. It is not difficult to see that all these similar problems are tightly bound with information phenomena, with the circle of the cardinal problems of informatics.     

Delivery of health informatics education and training

An overview is provided of education and training in health information management in the context of national information strategies. Although the article focuses upon British programmes, there are examples from North America, Australasia and other countries. Reference is made to international activities in the development of generic courses for education and training, the need for education and training, the content of courses, and methods of delivery, including Internet‐based training and education. Governments and health authorities in many countries have recognized the urgent need for a highly educated and trained workforce in information management, but universities have been slow to respond, until the last few years. However, there is now a plethora of education and training programmes in North America, most European countries, and Australasia.     

Role of informatics in the ecologization of society

In our time the process of ecologization is becoming deeper and deeper and it embraces different aspects of the world community, such as economics, consciousness, science, and education. This means that it is necessary to study the nature and methodology of this phenomenon. At the same time, the attention of researchers is increasingly attracted by the information aspect of ecologization. The role of social information in the process of ecologization of various forms of the social consciousness (especially science) is directly related to the tasks of informatics in the deepening of the genesis of the noosphere on this planet.     

Technology and informatics in Australian health libraries

Australia is no different to any other country in that information technology (IT) and the speed of its advancement has a huge impact on health care and therefore on health libraries. Australian health librarians are valuable members of health care teams and strive to integrate services and resources across hospitals. This article looks at the role Australian health libraries play in the broader health information landscape and the importance of information governance and health informatics as a tenet of the work undertaken by libraries. Of particular focus in this is the Health Libraries Australia/Telstra Health Digital Health Innovation Award, offered annually, to help focus on particular technological challenges. Three cases studies are explored demonstrating impact on the systematic review process, inter-library loan system automation and a room booking service. Also discussed are the ongoing professional development opportunities, which help upskill the Australian health library workforce. Australian health libraries also face many challenges with piecemeal IT systems across the nation, resulting in lost opportunities. Also, many Australian health services do not have a qualified librarian on staff, which undermines information governance. However, resiliency shines through with strong professional health library networks working to challenge the status quo in an effort to improve the application of health informatics.     

A current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship.

OBJECTIVE: The article offers a current perspective on medical informatics and health sciences librarianship. NARRATIVE: The authors: (1) discuss how definitions of medical informatics have changed in relation to health sciences librarianship and the broader domain of information science; (2) compare the missions of health sciences librarianship and health sciences informatics, reviewing the characteristics of both disciplines; (3) propose a new definition of health sciences informatics; (4) consider the research agendas of both disciplines and the possibility that they have merged; and (5) conclude with some comments about actions and roles for health sciences librarians to flourish in the biomedical information environment of today and tomorrow. SUMMARY: Boundaries are disappearing between the sources and types of and uses for health information managed by informaticians and librarians. Definitions of the professional domains of each have been impacted by these changes in information. Evolving definitions reflect the increasingly overlapping research agendas of both disciplines. Professionals in these disciplines are increasingly functioning collaboratively as "boundary spanners," incorporating human factors that unite technology with health care delivery.     

情报学研究的方法论认同与理论创新问题

随着中国情报学规范化、国际化与本土化趋势的加深,必然出现一个对情报学研究的方法论与理论资源的最优选择和运用问题.只有处理好方法论认同与理论创新问题,才能不断提升中国情报学研究的学术质量.     

一代恩师风范长存

1955年我考入武汉大学（以下简称“武大”）学习，因1952年（一说1953年）全国经过院系调整，原来由美国人韦棣华先生创办的武昌“文华图专”，被并人武大，建立了新的“图书馆学系”，这是我国最早由国家兴办的图书馆学高等教育，亦为武大增添了新的专业。初组织系的规模不大，教职工约有二十名，但大家齐心协力，把系办得井井有条。当时53级和54级只招收20名学生，学制两年；55级增招至40名，比原有数翻了一倍，学制三年；56级以后，改为四年制本科，再扩招至60名。我们入学时，只有54级，毕业时又有56级和57级，学生总人数约为150多名，但比起一些老系（如中文、历史、哲学、数学、物理学、化学和生物等系），只算是一个小系、新系。因此，我们见证了武大图书馆学系由小到大、茬壮成长的发展历程。     

Information and informatics literacies of first-year medical students

Purpose

The study evaluated medical students'' familiarity with information literacy and informatics during the health sciences library orientation.

Methods

A survey was fielded at the start of the 2013 school year.

Results

Seventy-two of 77 students (94%) completed the survey. Over one-half (57%) expected to use library research materials and services. About half (43%) expected to use library physical space. Students preferred accessing biomedical research on laptops and learning via online-asynchronous modes.

Conclusions

The library identified areas for service development and outreach to medical students and academic departments.