For the fourth year in a row, the Department of Fundamental Disciplines and Informatics has been an active participant and co-organizer of the DigiHealthDay International Symposium since 2021. This significant annual event was one of the results of the cooperation of the Department (the Head of the Department is professor Ozar Mintser), as a representative of the Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, and the European Campus Rottal-Inn (project coordinator — professor Georgi Chaltikyan) of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Federal Republic of Germany.
The event is significant because numerous representatives of European countries have declared the impossibility of providing modern high-quality medical care without the support of information technologies. This applies to the use and storage of personal data of patients, medical and biological knowledge, modeling of medical and biological processes, image processing, statistical analysis of clinical studies and much more.
One of the important decisions of last year's Symposium and another step taken by the Department of Fundamental Disciplines and Informatics in the direction of European integration was, for the first time in Europe, the joining of efforts of two scientific and practical publications to cover the most important European events. The University Journal "Medical Informatics and Engineering" in collaborate with the DIT publication "Journal of Applied Interdisciplinary Research" (JAIR) will publish special issues for the orderly display of significant European research events in the fields of health care and biology, which will enable researchers to get a full spectrum about the importance of certain events.
Note that the goal of JAIR coincides with the program goals of the journal "Medical Informatics and Engineering" — to offer experienced and young scientists and researchers a platform for discussing topics and scientific results of interdisciplinary research, analyzing problems and proposing solutions. This is one of the first opportunities in Europe for an interdisciplinary forum for applied research. Various fields are increasingly overlapping, so researchers need a publication to publish their interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary research, exchange ideas and present results. JAIR is an open access journal that adheres to the principles of transparent science and is governed by the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Natural Sciences and Humanities.
The first jointly prepared special issue was published in the IV quarter of 2023 and is dedicated to the field of Digital Health, which today is considered a cardinal factor in modern health care systems (https://jas.bayern/index.php/jair/issue/view/12).
It is because of its enormous potential and widespread application that Digital Health is changing the way healthcare is delivered. Special attention is also paid to digital health education, artificial intelligence research and ethics. Among the topics of the implemented projects: health care information systems, data standards and their compatibility, electronic medical records (EHR), telemedicine and remote medical assistance, mobile medicine (mHealth), Internet of Things (IoMT), telemonitoring, health data management me, their privacy and analytics, security, social innovation and patient engagement.
We invite professionals and young scientists to meetings on the pages of a joint scientific and practical publication to present ideas, ways and methods of information society development.