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WHAT IT IS?
By Staff Reporters
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FORMAL DEFINITION:
According to Wikipedia, Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic health records, diagnostic test results, medical scans. The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques.
Health informatics is a spectrum of multidisciplinary fields that includes study of the design, development and application of computational innovations to improve health care. The disciplines involved combines medicine fields with computing fields, in particular computer engineering, software engineering, information engineering, bioinformatics, bio-inspired computing, theoretical computer science, information systems, data science, information technology, autonomic computing, and behavior informatics. In academic institutions, medical informatics research focus on applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare and designing medical devices based on embedded systems. In some countries term informatics is also used in the context of applying library science to data management in hospitals.
‘Clinical informaticians’ are qualified health and social care professionals and ‘clinical informatics’ is a subspecialty within several medical specialties.
What does it mean to be a medical or healthcare informaticist practitioner?
A medical or healthcare informaticist works to improve how we use information to improve health and healthcare. You can have medical informaticists who are of various specialties, like a nurse informaticist, dentist informaticist. There is even a board certification level in clinical informatics. Improving healthcare also means improving the work of healthcare professionals—not just improving patients’ health, but making things easier for physicians, nurses, and all the various healthcare workers.
What kind of information do MI and HI clinicians deal with?
Patient information that’s stored in our electronic health record (EHR). A lot of the work we do is just making sure that information is showing up in the right places and that it’s flowing from other sources—whether through referrals or the lab system or radiology—then making sure it’s easy to find and easy to use by treating clinicians.
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