On the current connection and relation between health informatics and social informatics

Smutny, Zdenek (avtor), Vehovar, Vasja (avtor)

Scholars from the health and medical sciences have recently proposed the term social informatics (SI) as a new scientific subfield of health informatics (HI). However, SI is not a new academic concept; in fact, it has been continuously used in the social sciences and informatics since the 1970s. Although the dominant understanding of SI was established in the 1990s in the United States, a rich international perspective on SI has existed since the 1970s in other regions of the world. When that perspective is considered, the fields of understanding can be structured into 7 SI schools of thought. Against that conceptual background, this paper contributes to the discussion on the relationship between SI and HI, outlining possible perspectives of SI that are associated with health, medical, and clinical aspects. This paper argues against the multiplication and inconsistent appearance of the term SI when newly used in health and medical sciences. A more explicit name for the area that uses health and social data to advance individual and population health might be helpful to overcome this issue; giving an identity to this new field would help it to be understood more precisely and bring greater separation. This labeling could be fruitful for further segmentation of HI, which is rapidly expanding.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: biomedical informatics, conceptual view, clinical informatics, international perspective, medical informatics
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2022
• Št. strani: 8 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 24, no. 9, art. e40547
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-151366
• UDK: 004.7:61
• ISSN pri članku: 1438-8871
• DOI: 10.2196/40547
• COBISS.SI-ID: 124895235
• Datum objave v RUL: 05.10.2023

SMUTNY, Zdenek in VEHOVAR, Vasja, 2022, On the current connection and relation between health informatics and social informatics. Journal of medical internet research [na spletu]. 2022. Vol. 24, no. 9,  e40547. [Dostopano 4 maj 2025]. DOI 10.2196/40547. Pridobljeno s: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=slv&id=151366

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of medical internet research
• Skrajšan naslov: JMIR, J. med. internet res.
• Založnik: JMIR Publications
• ISSN: 1438-8871
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2406629

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Projekti

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0399
• Naslov: Internetno raziskovanje

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: Prague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
• Številka projekta: IP400040