Editorial Note on Health Informatics

Using the development of the Cardiovascular Health Informatics and Multimodal E-record (CHIME) as an example, the authors have discussed in this editorial note four goals, each with a corresponding technical challenge in health informatics that needs to be overcome in order to better prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). With collaborative efforts, it is hoped that these barriers and all those unmentioned can be removed such that the problem of CVD can be relieved. Since CVD and common chronic diseases share a number of risk factors, the experience in the development of CHIME will definitely be valuable in formulating solutions to the crisis created by the ageing population and the prevalence of chronic disease on our health care system. Thus we are looking forward to receiving original contributions to T-ITB in the area of health informatics to expediate progress in this area.