Dental Informatics: Strategic Issues for the Dental Profession

1. Front Matter

   Pages N2-X

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2. Dental Informatics: What, Why, Who, Where, and When

   1. Dental Informatics: What, Why, Who, Where, and When

      • John J. Salley, John L. Zimmerman, Marion J. Ball

      Pages 1-6

3. Contributed Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Keynote Address: Informatics in Dentistry

      • Donald A. B. Lindberg

      Pages 9-16

   3. The History of Medical Informatics: Implications for Dental Informatics

      • Morris F. Collen

      Pages 17-29

   4. Nursing Informatics: How It Evolved and Its Current Status

      • Marion J. Ball

      Pages 31-34

   5. Dental Informatics: An Overview

      • Howard L. Bailit

      Pages 35-39

   6. The Problem-Knowledge Coupler: Applications in Health Care Delivery

      • Lawrence L. Weed

      Pages 41-47

4. Workshop Discussions and Recommendations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-53

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   2. Informatics Applications in Dental Practice

      • John J. Salley, John L. Zimmerman, Marion J. Ball

      Pages 55-61

   3. Informatics and Dental Education

      • John J. Salley, John L. Zimmerman, Marion J. Ball

      Pages 63-67

   4. Research in Informatics/Informatics in Research

      • John J. Salley, John L. Zimmerman, Marion J. Ball

      Pages 69-74

5. Conference Outcomes and General Recommendations

   1. Conference Outcomes and General Recommendations

      • John J. Salley, John L. Zimmerman, Marion J. Ball

      Pages 75-82

6. Back Matter

   Pages 83-107

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During the course of this year, 1990, dentistry will celebrate its sesquicentennial as a profession. In February 1840, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the Dental School of the University of Maryland, was chartered by the Maryland General Assembly as the world's first dental school. In the same year the American Society of Dental Surgeons, the antecedent of the present day American Dental Association, was founded, also in Baltimore. In the previous year, 1839, the American Journal of Dental Science was initiated as the first periodic scientific and professional publication in dentistry, later evolving to the Journal of the American Dental Association. With the congruence of three fundamental elements which are essential to any profession--a unique program of education, a formal means to communicate and freely share new information, and an organization devoted to maintenance of professional ethics and standards through self-regulation--dentistry began evolving to its current status as a valued and respected health profession. From its birth and through the intervening century and a half, dentistry has been a profession heavily reliant on technology as well as science. Dentists variously are credited with the discovery and development of general anesthesia and the precision casting technique; and they make significant use of rotary cutting instruments, ultrasonics, laser technology, unique biomaterials, and intraosseous implants, to mention only a few techniques.

• Computeranwendung
• Dental Informatics
• Informatik
• Zahnheilkunde
• computer applications
• computerassistierte Detektion
• dentistry
• education
• informatics
• medical informatics
• strategic planning
• strategische Planung

• Department of Oral Pathology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

  John J. Salley

• Academic Computing and Health Informatics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

  John L. Zimmerman

• Information Resources, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

  Marion J. Ball

Policies and ethics