Informatics research, practice, theory and history

Abstract

This issue of Informatics in Primary Care includes high-quality papers from around the world: Spain, Canada, London, Australia and Scandinavia. The papers cover the breadth of primary care informatics from the basics of choosing a dataset, via a report of how to select high-quality primary care data to how computersmight improve preventive care, history taking and prescribing. We then have a very thoughtful theoretical piece on conceptualising the facets of enduser support before ending with the inaugural James Read Memorial Lecture – which describes the history of the eponymous Read Codes.