Health Informatics

Health Informatics: 

Health Informatics Brian Wells, MPH, MSM

Health Informatics: 

Health Informatics What is Health Informatics? A discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care Is the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption and application of IT-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management and planning. D eals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine

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Health Informatics Applications of Health Informatics Translational Bioinformatics Clinical Research Informatics Clinical Informatics Consumer Health Informatics Public Health Informatics

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Health Informatics Translational Bioinformatics Is the development of storage, analytic, and interpretive methods to optimize the transformation of increasingly voluminous biomedical data, and genomic data, into proactive, predictive, preventive, and participatory health. Translational bioinformatics includes research on the development of novel techniques for the integration of biological and clinical data and the evolution of clinical informatics methodology to encompass biological observations. The end product of translational bioinformatics is newly found knowledge from these integrative efforts that can be disseminated to a variety of stakeholders, including biomedical scientists, clinicians, and patients.

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Health Informatics Clinical Research Informatics I nvolves the use of informatics in the discovery and management of new knowledge relating to health and disease. It includes management of information related to clinical trials and also involves informatics related to secondary research use of clinical data. Clinical research informatics and translational bioinformatics are the primary domains related to informatics activities to support translational research.

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Health Informatics Clinical Informatics I s the application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services. At times, this has also been referred to as applied clinical informatics. Clinical Informatics is concerned with information use in health care by clinicians. Clinical informatics includes a wide range of topics ranging from clinical decision support to visual images (e.g. radiological, pathological, dermatological, ophthalmological, etc ); from clinical documentation to provider order entry systems; and from system design to system implementation and adoption issues.

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Health Informatics Consumer Health Informatics I s the field devoted to informatics from multiple consumer or patient views. These include patient-focused informatics, health literacy and consumer education. The focus is on information structures and processes that empower consumers to manage their own health--for example health information literacy, consumer-friendly language, personal health records, and Internet-based strategies and resources. The shift in this view of informatics analyses consumers' needs for information; studies and implements methods for making information accessible to consumers; and models and integrates consumers' preferences into health information systems. Consumer informatics stands at the crossroads of other disciplines, such as nursing informatics, public health, health promotion, health education, library science, and communication science.

Health Informatics: 

Health Informatics Public Health Informatics I s the application of informatics in areas of public health, including surveillance, reporting, and health promotion. Public health informatics, and its corollary, population informatics, are concerned with groups rather than individuals. Public health is extremely broad and might even reflect an interest in information technology with regard to ecology, architecture, climate, agriculture, and such.

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Health Informatics Health Informatics is, in part, a mathematics and statistics-based approach to understanding health information

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Health Informatics Prior informatics concept of simple data displays

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Health Informatics Current concepts of probabilistic-based determination

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Health Informatics Current concepts of probabilistic-based determination

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Health Informatics Emerging concepts Integration with natural language-based systems Real-time addition of new data to integrate with clinical probability database Learning systems that improve their accuracy with time

Health Informatics: 

Health Informatics Will require an expanded and holistic understanding of health care Requires an understanding of mathematical and computer-based concepts of management Changing concepts related to the practice of medicine Improving surveillance of disease and health issues Improving accuracy of diagnosis, reducing time to diagnosis, and improving accuracy and efficacy of treatment Potential for cost-savings related to best evidence-based practice

With thanks: 

With thanks To IBM, B&W, AMIA and others for images and information