Experience

up to date with the latest accomplish-ments in medicine and health. since the 60’s the development of information tech-nologies has had a quantitative and qual-itative growth especially in diagnostics and therapy, and health workers had to follow that. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in the early 60’s organized expert teams whose task was to develop strategy, concepts and content of under and postgraduate medi-cal education. At a later date the IFIP sep-arated and formed the IMIA – Internation-al Medical Informatics Association and EFMI – European Federation for Medical Informatics. Working groups in those sci-entific and expert associations, with their recommendations, defined education for medical informatics on three levels: First, informatics education which should provide general knowledge to us-ers and data analysis on the place of their generation, and on all places of collecting data in health system (physicians of all specializations, nurses and paramedical staff). second level, informatics education of this level is in regard to medical staff which was directly involved in collec-tion, manipulation, analysis and interpre-tation of health data. This kind of educa-tion was expanded with skills, knowledge and practical applications which are nec-essary for personnel on this level. The Third level is basically a very wide and highly specialized education for experts in the health sector who would like to be professionally involved in this kind of work. In B&h there has never been an accepted proposal for introduc-ing sub-specialization from medical in-formatics in spite of the fact that author