Bin durch so manch’ Projekt gestolpert. Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Medizinischen Informatik

The aim of this essay is to provide guidance on the future development and role of medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics, in the form of reflections.In order to make these reflections on the future of medical informatics more understandable, it seemed necessary for the author to report on his previous work as a medical informaticist, which spans almost half a century. It began in 1973 when he started to study medical informatics. In 1978, more than four decades ago, his professional work started. He retired at the end of the 2021 summer semester. This was the occasion to prepare this farewell lecture. In 20 reflections, thoughts are presented on professional careers (R – ‘places’), on medical informatics as discipline (R – ‘interdisciplinarity’, R – ‘focuses’, R – ‘affiliations’), on research (R – ‘duality’, R – ‘confluences’, R – ‘correlations’, R – ‘collaboration’), on education (R – ‘community’, R – ‘competencies’, R – ‘approaches’), on academic self-governance (R – ‘autonomy’), on participation (R – ‘Sisyphos’, R – ‘professional societies’, R – ‘respect’, R – ‘tightrope walk’), and on good scientific practice (R – ‘time invariants’, R – ‘Zeitgeist’, R – ‘knowledge gain’, R – ‘exercising’).

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