Plenary lecture 3: biomedical informatics a creative way in health education - an ethical approach

Developing the medicine in our days is not possible without clinical informatics and biomedical informatics. Biomedical informatics and its development is connected with computer science, medicine, biomedicine, public health and is more and more a practical discipline which need a permanently evaluation of ethical standards. Bioethics is, in this context, a powerful tool for evaluating the impact of biomedical informatics in health care activities and is connected with medical student education. Understanding and studying the medicine using a biomedical informatics way could be also a modality to replace traditional instruction based by dissection and patients. Biomedical informatics programme could also avoid experimenting skills on the patients or use autoexperiment before having enough abilities to do that. Biomedical informatics is a modality to improve health care, to develop public health policy and, in the same time to assure a support for medical and nursing student education. Clinical decision support assured by biomedical informatics is also an area of research and education. The challenge is to integrate different fields of biomedical informatics in medical, pharmaceutical or nursing education, even if it is graduate or post-graduate programme. Biomedical informatics specialists are involved more and more in health system in management, administration, security or medical decision. Biomedical informatics specialist in our days could be medical doctors, nurses, computer specialists, biomedical engineers or medical librarians. Also, pharmacists, or pharmaceutical representatives, academic researchers or educators and students are interested and involved in biomedical informatics activities. They could be structured on 3 levels of interest and competencies: academic (educators and researchers designates for evaluate and develop special software), applicative (for managers, information officers or persons designated for adapt special software for medical practice) and applicants of biomedical informatics programme in their daily professional activities. According to this, bioethics is a practical discipline which must integrate the moral rules in the society's development and could assure high standards for respecting the human being rights and individuality.