Health information systems— past, present, future

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Hamad Mahdi Faris Yaseen , Hussain Abdullah Ali AlHutailah , Ali alhassan ali almakrami , Mohammed Ali Almakrami , -Hussain Ali Almakrami, RADHI HEBA ALMAKRAMI , Ibrahim Mohammed Yahya ALkhaywani , -Saleh mubarak ali alsiwar

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Summary In 1984, Peter Reichertz gave a lecture on the past, present and future of hospital information systems. In the meantime, there has been a tremendous progress in medicine as well as in informatics. One important benefit of this progress is that our life expectancy is nowadays significantly higher than it would have been even some few decades ago. This progress, leading to aging societies, is of influence to the organization of health care and to the future development of its information systems. Twenty years later, referring to Peter Reichertz’ lecture, but now consider- ing health information systems (HIS), two questions are discussed: which were lines of development in health information systems from the past until today? What are consequences for health information systems in the future

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