health informatics

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 Chapter three

health informatics terminologies

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 Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
o Describe Information system
o Describe Information management
o Describe information technology

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 Information System

A set of interrelated components that collect

(or retrieve), process, store, and distribute
information to support decision making and
control in an organization.

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 Information Management
Assuring that the right information is
available to the right people, within and
outside an organization, at the right time and
for the right price.

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 Information Technology
o Any technology which processes and
communicates data, includes:
o computers, voice, data and image sensing and
communications devices, multi-media storage,
etc.

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 Chapter four

health informatics
Objectives
oDefine Health informatics
oDescribe the importance of health informatics

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 Introduction to Health Informatics
o Health informatics is the field concerned with the
optimal use of information often aided by technology to
improve individual health, health care, public health and
biomedical research.
- Is about information, not technology

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 Introduction to Health Informatics
o Health informatics is a field that combines information
technology with health care concerns.
o This linkage of technology and health care results in
solutions to problems in the medical field---which
ultimately help health care professionals better serve
their patients.

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 Introduction to Health Informatics
o Intersection of information science, computer science,
and health care.
o It deals with the resources, devices, and methods
required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval,
and use of information in health.

o Health informatics is the discipline concerned with the

systematic processing of data in the health care
environment with an emphasis on computer processing.
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 Why Health Informatics?
o Health Informatics provides information to make decisions
o Better information leads to better decisions
o Health care, management, planning and policy all need
good information
Key Elements of Informatics
o Acquisition
o Storage
o Communication
o Manipulation
o Display
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 Why Health Informatics?
oHealth Informatics performs coalescing of data, knowledge, and
the tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge in the
decision-making process, at the time and place that a decision
needs to be made.
oHealth Informatics helps to produce information for decision
makers to use it to improve the delivery of health care, resource
allocation to where it is needed most and will improve
accountability

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 Why Health Informatics?
o improving the quality of care through new technologies.
o Better information leads to better decisions
o Health care management, planning and policy all need good information

o Health Informatics provides Information or makes better use of

information by making more efficient the way patient data and medical
knowledge is captured, processed, communicated, and applied.

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 In general, Health Informatics is
important:
o To provide a continuum of patient care information

o Need for enhanced documentation, data repositories

o The relative efficiency of computers in searching and retrieval operations

o Ideally, computerization has as its first priority support of the clinical

decision process in a manner that improves patient care quality.

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 In general, Health Informatics is
important:
o Measures health status

o Protects from unauthorized access

o Supports continuous access, simultaneous multi-user views

o Features clinical problem solving and clinical researches

o Supports direct data entry by physicians ,management of patient care

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 Health Informatics Tools
oHealth informatics tools include not only computers but
also
o Clinical guidelines

o Formal medical terminologies

o Information and communication systems.

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 Health Informatics is NOT
o Keeping the computers running

o Fixing the network

o Setting up new computers for employees

o Database management

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 Challenges in Health Informatics
o The heterogeneous nature of the field and inability of
those who work in it to make such an identity.

o Many clinicians are ambivalent about new technology:

concerns about the way technology is used in medicine.

o Security, connectivity and other issues.

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