Health informatics and the humanities
Hultengren, E.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 52 Pt 2: 1180-1183
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 10384645 Document Number: 488139
Researchers and professionals from the Humanities are new within the science of health informatics, where researchers and professionals from the natural sciences have so far de-fined the problems and their solutions. A cross-disciplinary collaboration can be difficult due to factors such as status and competition, to insufficient co-operation qualifications, and due to different definitions of problems. This paper presents examples of differently formulated health informatics problems. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is necessary but collaboration demands openness, curiosity, and readiness from researchers and professionals as well as it demands know-edge of the processes in cross-disciplinary cooperation. Considerations for cross-disciplines were actualized with the foundation in Denmark of the cross-disciplinary institution: The Virtual Centre for Health Informatics.