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Medical Informatics
Y. SINGH
NELSON R. MANDELA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF TELEHEALTH
SINGHY@UKZN.AC.ZA
Learning Objectives
Define medical informatics
Get a sense of what medical
informatics encompasses
An Evolving Field
1950s Intuitively: medical applications
of computer science
Medical computer science
Medical information science
Biomedical computing
Medical informatics
Health or healthcare informatics
Clinical informatics
History
1949 Gustav Wager
1950 United States National Bureau of
Standards
medical informatics
Video One
Video Two
Biological data
Medical data
Associated data
Problem solving
Decision making
information
Policy Making
Medical
Informatics
Physician Order Entry Systems
Telemedicine
Nursing Informatics
data important ?
Administrative purposes
Legal issues
approach ?
Organizational
Logistical
Research
Passive nature of paper
approach ?
Medication errors:
Patient has allergic reactions
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/
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Video Three
approach ?
Cost:
Paper and storage
Environmental Cost
Time:
Find record, perform tests
applications
Video four
family physicians
Video Five
Public Health
Aggregated clinical data can be analyzed to
Personalized Medicine
Genomic medicine
Manage greater quantities of data and more
No
Steps to Success
According to Haux:
Patient centered recording and use of data
Process integrated decision support
Comprehensive use of patient data for clinical and
reporting
Change Management
Workflow analysis
Simple technology
(Health care in the information society. A prognosis for the year 2013 -- Haux R, et al. Int J Med Inf 2002
Nov;66(1-3):3-21)
Thank You
HIBBs is a program of the Global Health
Informatics Partnership
www.ghip.net
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