Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents Yearb Med Inform 2013; 22(01): 34-46DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638830 Original Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart Evidence Based Health Informatics: 10 Years of Efforts to Promote the Principle Joint Contribution of IMIA WG EVAL and EFMI WG EVAL M. Rigby 1 Keele University, School of Public Policy and Professional Practice, Keele, United Kingdom , E. Ammenwerth 2 UMIT, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol, Austria , M.-C. Beuscart-Zephir 3 INSERM-CIC-IT, CHU Lille, Lille, France , J. Brender 4 Aalborg University, Dept. of Health Science and Technology, and Virtual Center for Health Informatics, Aalborg, Denmark , H. Hyppönen 5 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Information Department, Helsinki, Finland , S. Melia 6 Telefonica UK Ltd., Slough, United Kingdom , P. Nykänen 7 Univ. of Tampere, School of Information Sciences, Centre for Information and Systems, eHealth, Tampere, Finland , J. Talmon 8 Maastricht University, School for Public Health and Primary Care: Caphri, Maastricht, The Netherlands , N. de Keizer 9 Academic Medical Center, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands › Author Affiliations Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download Keywords KeywordsEvidence-based health informatics - evaluation - evidence - health informatics - ethics References References 1 http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/GA/2012beijing/1210GA-beijing-president-WHO.pdf (accessed 31 January 2013). 2 Rigby M, Ammenwerth E, Talmon J, Nykanen P, Brender J, de Keizer N. Health Informatics 3.0 and other Increasingly Dispersed Technologies Require Even Greater Trust: Promoting Safe Evidence-based Health Informatics. In: Geissbuhler A, Kulikowski CA. editors. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2011: Towards Health Informatics 3.0. 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