Abstract
The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International Medical
Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of recent excellent papers
on medical informatics research (http://www.med.uni-heidelberg.de/mi/yearbook/index.htm). The special topic of the just published Yearbook 2001 is “Digital Libraries and
Medicine”. Digital libraries have changed dramatically and will continue to change
the way we work with medical knowledge. The selected papers present recent research
and new results on digital libraries. As usual, the Yearbook 2001 also contains a
variety of papers on other subjects relevant to medical informatics, such as Electronic
Patient Records, Health Information Systems, Health and Clinical Management, Decision
Support Systems, Education, as well as Image and Signal Processing. This paper will
briefly introduce the contributions covering digital libraries and will show how medical
informatics research contributes to this important topic.
Keywords
Medical Informatics - International Medical Informatics Association - IMIA - Digital
Library - Yearbook
