Official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IMIA.

International Journal of Medical Informatics provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics. The Journal emphasizes the evaluation of systems in healthcare settings.
The scope of journal covers:
Information systems, including national or international registration systems, hospital information systems, departmental and/or physician's office systems, document handling systems, electronic medical record systems, standardization, systems integration etc.;
Computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic, data structure, algorithms, statistical methods as exemplified in decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence and, machine learning studies among other techniques to new knowledge discovering. Thus, it is recommended to follow the IJMI editorial that provides clear guidance to the articles on medical Artificial Intelligence. (Cabitza, G; Campagner A) The need to separate the wheat from the chaff in medical informatics: introducing a comprehensive checklist for the (self-)assessment of medical AI studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104510
Educational computer based programs pertaining to medical informatics or medicine in general;
Organizational, economic, social, clinical impact, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT applications in health care.


Short technical communications concerning (solved) problems in implementing or using existing information systems are welcome. Review articles concerning subjects falling in the scope of the journal are also invited.

Papers reporting original work
Interpretative reviews
Technical notes
Letters to the Editor

Editor
Heimar De Fatima Marin
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Associate Editors
Michael Cantor
Tarrytown, New York, United States
Patricia Dykes
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Andrew Georgiou
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Anne-Sophie Jannot
Paris, France
Bridget Kane
Karlstad, Sweden
Siaw-Teng Liaw
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia General practice, Primary Health Care, Integrated care, Clinical Informatics, Safety, Quality, Translational Research, Clinical Decision Making, Cross-cultural health, Indigenous Health
Li Zhou
Boston, Massachusetts, United States Natural Language Processing, Electronic Health Records, Clinical Decision Support, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning
Editor Emeritus
Charles Safran
Boston, Massachusetts, United States Editor for the America
Jan Talmon
Sint Odilienberg, Netherlands Editor for Europe, Asia and Africa
Editorial Board
Jos Aarts
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lawrence Afrin
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Elske Ammenwerth
Hall in Tirol, Austria Health information systems; Health informatics education
Dominik Aronsky
Switzerland
Suzanne Bakken
New York, New York, United States
Sayonara Barbosa
Florianópolis, Brazil
Riccardo Bellazzi
Pavia, Italy Data Mining; Artificial Intelligence; Clinical research informatics; Translational Bioinformatics
Bernd Blobel
Regensburg, Germany
Federico Cabitza
Milano, Italy
Tony Cornford
London, United Kingdom
Patrice Degoulet
Paris, France
Rodrigo Deliberato
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Henry Feldman
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Adi Gundlapalli
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Marco Antonio Gutierrez
São Paulo, Brazil
Morten Hertzum
København, Denmark
Farzad Jahedi
Brisbane, Australia
Andrew Kanter
New York, New York, United States
Thomas Karopka
Greifswald, Germany
Nicolette de Keizer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sabine Koch
Stockholm, Sweden
Ross Koppel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Klaus Kuhn
Munchen, Germany
Nancy Lorenzi
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Xudong Lu
Hangzhou, China
Simon de Lusignan
Guildford, United Kingdom
Genevieve B. Melton-Meaux
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Eneida Mendonca
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
David Novillo-Ortiz
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Mei-Sing Ong
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Calvin Kalun Or
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Paula Otero
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gretchen Purcell Jackson
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Yuri Quintana
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Janise Richards
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Michael Rigby
Newcastle, United Kingdom
Stephen Ross
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Tiffany Veinot
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Mark Weiner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Li Zhou
Boston, Massachusetts, United States