About the Journal

Applied Clinical Informatics

Sub-Title: An International Journal of Health Information Sciences

Sub-Title: Official Journal of IMIA

The journal is quarterly published online, with eTOC alerts whenever articles have been accepted for publication.

Characteristic / Aims of the journal

The benefits of clinical Health Information Technology (HIT) have long been established and we are moving into an era when we can hope to leverage these benefits to make patient care safer, more efficient, more proactive and complete. However, slow adoption of HIT has been due to lack of practical knowledge on linking clinical effectiveness to implementation success and return on investment. For health care to move forward in adopting HIT successfully, institutions must be able to share experiences, both good and bad, to learn from them collectively, to avoid repeating mistakes and to save time, costs, and human lives. The aim of this journal is to create the platform on which such sharing can occur, between clinical medicine and health IT, to bridge gaps between visionary design and successful and pragmatic deployment.

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