Summary
Objectives:
To discuss application areas of information technology in medicine and health care
on the occasion of the opening of the Private Universität für Medizinische Informatik
und Technik Tirol/University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) at
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
Results and Conclusions:
Important application areas of information technology in medicine and health are
appropriate individual access to medical knowledge, new engineering developments such
as new radiant imaging methods and the implantable pacemaker/ defibrillator devices,
mathematical modeling for understanding the workings of the human body, the computer-based
patient record, as well as new knowledge in molecular biology, human genetics, and
biotechnology. Challenges and responsibilities for medical informatics research include
medical data privacy and intellectual property rights inherent in the content of the
information systems.
Keywords
Medical informatics - health informatics
