Health information systems--technology and acceptance. Findings from the section on health information systems.

OBJECTIVES: To summarize current outstanding research in the field of health information systems (HIS).

METHOD: Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007.

RESULTS: Five articles from three international peer reviewed journals were selected for the HIS section of the IMIA Yearbook 2007. They represent outstanding research on new user interfaces for mobile data entry, smart card based approaches for national eHealth projects, generic system architectures for telemedicine services, new approaches for electronic prescriptions based on ubiquitous computing, and telemedical systems for chronic care in COPD.

CONCLUSIONS: In the field of health information systems, evaluation and general architectural aspects of telemedical platforms respectively eHealth infrastructures currently is an important research topic as well as establishing acceptance of new technologies from the users and the organizations point of view.