Methods Inf Med 2017; 56(S 01): e20-e29
DOI: 10.3414/ME16-15-0001
For Discussion - Original Articles
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Discussion of “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health”

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
1   Knowledge, Research and Ethics, e-Marefa, Amman, Jordan
,
Elizabeth M. Borycki
2   School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
,
Michio Kimura
3   Medical Informatics Department, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu University Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan
,
Christoph U. Lehmann
4   Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
,
Nancy M. Lorenzi
4   Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
,
Lincoln A. Moura
5   Assis Moura eHealth, Porto Allegre, RS, Brazil
,
Alfred Winter
6   Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Publication History

01 February 2017

Publication Date:
31 January 2018 (online)

Summary

This article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health” written by Fernan Gonzalez Bernaldo de Qui-ros, Adriana Ruth Dawidowski, and Silvana Figar. It is introduced by an editorial. This article contains the combined commentaries invited to independently comment on the paper of de Quiros, Dawidowski, and Figar. In subsequent issues the discussion can continue through letters to the editor.