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Methods Inf Med 2013; 52(06): 547-562
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1627064
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Discussion of “Biomedical Infor -matics: We Are What We Publish”

A. Geissbuhler
1   Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
,
W. E. Hammond
2   Duke Center for Health Informatics, Durham, North Carolina, USA
,
A. Hasman
3   Department of Medical Informatics, AMC-University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
,
R. Hussein
4   The Biomedical Informatics Center of Excellence, Information Technology Institute, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt
,
R. Koppel
5   Sociology Department and the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, USA
,
C. A. Kulikowski
6   Department of Computer Science, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA
,
V. Maojo
7   Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
,
F. Martin-Sanchez
8   Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
,
P. W. Moorman
9   Medical Informatics Department, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
,
L. A. Moura
10   Assis Moura eHealth, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
,
F. G. B. de Quirós
11   Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
,
M. J. Schuemie
12   Janssen Research & Development, Titusville, New Jersey, USA
,
B. Smith
13   Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
,
J. Talmon
14   Centre for Research Innovation, Support and Policy, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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19 January 2018 (online)

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Summary

This article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper "Biomedical Informatics: We Are What We Publish", written by Peter L. Elkin, Steven H. Brown, and Graham Wright. It is introduced by an editorial. This article contains the combined commenta -ries invited to independently comment on the Elkin et al. paper. In subsequent issues the discussion can continue through letters to the editor.

Keywords

Biomedical informatics - natural language processing - Medline - ontology
 

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