title: Medicine in the 21 st century: global problems, global solutions
abstract: The objectives are to discuss application areas of information, technology in medicine and health care on the occasion of the opening of the Private Universitat fur Medizinische Informatik and Technik Tirol/University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol (LIMIT) at Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. Important application areas of information technology in medicine and health are appropriate individual access to medical knowledge, new engineering developments such as new radiant imaging methods and the implantable pacemaker/defibrillator devices, mathematical modeling for understanding the workings of the human body, the computer-based patient record, as well as new knowledge in molecular biology, human genetics, and biotechnology. Challenges and responsibilities for medical informatics research include medical data privacy and intellectual property rights inherent in the content of the information systems
keyphrases: medicine health care information technology engineering developments radiant imaging methods mathematical modeling human body computer-based patient record molecular biology human genetics biotechnology medical informatics research medical data privacy intellectual property rights information systems individual medical knowledge access implantable pacemaker devices implantable defibrillator devices