Component 6; Unit 1; What is Health Informatics?
Description:
A definition of information management, information technology, and informatics, describe the fundamental theorem of informatics, explains the meaning of biomedical and health informatics as a field of study, and offers definitions of the major biomedical informatics areas of applications. Also, an overview of informatics drivers and trends in the health care field. A definition of the informatics team, their skills, roles and responsibilities, and identifies how health informaticians process data into information and knowledge for health care tasks with the support of information technology to improve patient care.
Objectives:
- Define information management, information system (technology) and informatics
- Explain the basic theoretical concept that underlies informatics practice
- Define the meaning of biomedical and health informatics as a field of study
- Describe the biomedical informatics areas of applications
- Summarize the informatics drivers and trends
- State the professional roles and skills of health informaticians
- Explain how health informaticians process data into information and knowledge for health care tasks with the support of information technology to improve patient care
Component 6; Unit 1; Lecture 1a comp6_unit1a_lecture_slides
Introduction to Health Informatics: 1) Definition of informatics terms; 2) Theory of informatics; 3) The field of biomedical and health informatics; 4) Informatics drivers and trends
Component 6; Unit 1; Lecture 1b comp6_unit1b_lecture_slides
Roles and Skills of Health Informaticians: 1) Professional roles and skills of health informaticians
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Suggested Readings
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Hersh. W. (2008). Health and biomedical informatics: opportunities and challenges for a twenty-first century profession and its education. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. Retrieved from http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/imia-yearbook/imia-yearbook-2008/issue/840/manuscript/9833.html
Hersh, W. (2009, May 15). A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/9/24
Mantas, J., et al. (2010). Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in biomedical and health informatics. Methods of Information in Medicine. Retrieved from http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/methods/contents/archive/issue/1053/manuscript/12538.html
Al-Shorbaji, N. (2001, May). Health and Medical informatics: Technical paper. Retrieved from http://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-12-2006/volume-12-supplement-2/report-who-emros-approach-for-supporting-e-health-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-region.html
Bellinger, G., Castro, D., & Mills, A. (2004). Data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Retrieved from http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
Fricke, M. (2008, October 23). The knowledge pyramid: A critique of the DIKW hierarchy. Journal of Information Science. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165551508094050
Kuhn K., et al. (2008). Informatics and medicine–from molecules to populations. Methods of Information in Medicine. Retrieved from https://methods.schattauer.de/contents/archivestandard/issue/667/issue/special/manuscript/10162/show.html
National Library of Medicine. (2011, October 19). Health informatics. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/informatics.html
Unimediaproduction. (2009, March 16). Turning information into knowledge. [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAIUGwHhKmk&feature=related