INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH

INFORMATICS
WEEK 1: HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

MR IBRAHIM MUGHNAMIN
 • Mr. Ibrahim Issa Mughnamin
 • Master of Health Informatics: AAUP
 • Emergency Nurse Practitioner: Bethlehem University
 • Chief of Nurse officer ( Yatta Governmental Hospital: MOH)
 • Hebron University
 • Office:
 • [email protected].

 • PPU University Portal: slides, assignments and communication

 WHAT IS INFORMATICS?

Informatics can be broken down into two classifications

➢ Applied Science
➢ An Academic field

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APPLIED SCIENCE
➢ Informatics encompasses several applied sciences:

➢ Information Science: the study of processing, management and

retrieval on information.

➢ Computer Science: the study of complex systems, information and

computation using mathematics.

➢ Information Technology: the study, design, development,

implementation, support or management of computer based
information system.
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ACADEMIC FIELD
➢ Informatics is the application of information technology to the arts, Sciences, and
professions

➢ Health Science Informatics

➢ Business Informatics

➢ Journalism Informatics

➢ Psychology Informatics

➢ Etc...

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Informatics

➢ The science concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving and classifying
recorded information

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DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM , (DIKW)

➢ Data: unorganized and unprocessed facts; static; a set of discrete facts about events.

➢No meaning attached to it as a result of which it may

have multiple meanings

➢ Information: aggregation of data that makes decision making easier.

➢ Meaning is attached and contextualized

➢ Answers questions: what, who, when, where

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 DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM
(DIKW)

➢ Knowledge: includes facts about real world entities and the

relationship between them .

➢ It is an understanding gained through experience.

➢ Answers the ‘how’ question

➢ Wisdom: is the appropriate use of data, information and

knowledge in making decisions.

➢ Knowledge Answers ‘why’ questions 9

DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM (DIKW)

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What is Health Informatics?

ENRICO COIERA, 1997

If physiology literally means 'the logic of life', and

pathology is 'the logic of disease', then health
informatics is the logic of healthcare.

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What is Health Informatics?

The knowledge, skills and tools which enable

information to be collected, managed, used and
shared to support the delivery of healthcare
and promote health.

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 TOOLS

➢ Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical
guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and
communication systems.

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 What is Health Informatics?

➢ “The intersection of information science, computer science, and health

care”

➢ Deals 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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DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY

➢Health informatics, medical informatics and biomedical informatics all of

these terms are used interchangeably which mean:

The optimal use of information, often aided by the use of technology,

to improve individual health, health care, public health, and
biomedical research.

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THE HISTORY OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

➢The health care industry didn't invest in technology as other

sector like banking or retail , However for the last few years there
has been a rise in money spent in health information technology.

➢The history of health informatics started for more than 50

years , It started in dentistry in 1950.

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Sub-domains of Health Informatics

Clinical informatics Dental informatics

Nursing informatics Pharmacy informatics

Public health informatics eHealth

Bioinformatics Veterinary informatics

Imaging informatics
Clinical research
informatics
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

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 COMPUTERIZED PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY
(CPOE)

 refers to the process of a medical professional entering and sending medication orders
and treatment instructions electronically via a computer application instead of on paper
charts.

 Benefits of CPOE

 enhance patient safety by reducing or eliminating medication errors.

 Improve efficiency when submitting medication.

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CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT (CDSS) ALERTS

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BAR CODE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
PROCESS

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KEY PLAYERS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS

➢ Patients
➢ Physicians and nurses
➢ Pharmacists
➢ Public health
➢ Governments
➢ Support staff
➢ Insurance companies
➢ Hospitals
➢ Medical researchers
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➢ Technology vendors
Scope of Health Informatics

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 BENEFITS OF HEALTH INFORMATICS
ADOPTION

➢ Increase the efficiency of health care (improve

physician, nurse and overall healthcare
productivity)
➢ Improve the quality (patient outcomes) of
healthcare, resulting in improved patient safety
➢ Reduce healthcare costs

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 BENEFITS OF HEALTH INFORMATICS ADOPTION

➢ Improve healthcare access with technologies such as telemedicine

➢ Improve communication, coordination, and continuity of care
➢ Improve medical education for clinicians and patients
➢ Time saving

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HOW HEALTH INFORMATICS CAN HELP?

 Health Service
➢ Reduce costs, and record keeping expenses.
➢ Provide More accurate data.
➢ Removes handwriting problems.
➢ Facilitate sharing of patient records among patients and provider.
➢ Enables the patient to manage their own health.
➢ Remote access to patient record.
➢ Reduced patients clinic visits to get results.
➢ Avoid unnecessarily duplicating laboratory tests.
➢ Avoid waste of and under utilized resources.

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HEALTH INFORMATICS BENEFITS FOR A COUNTRY’S
HEALTH

➢ Identify safety problems: EHR systems can

identify and notify patients who may be at risk due to unsafe
drugs or medical devices.
➢ Detect epidemics. EHRs to find unexpected increases in
diseases within a community. Patterns of prescribing in
pharmacy records could even help identify unusual
occurrence of disease.
➢ Improve overall health care. Researchers exploring
which treatments are most effective.
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HEALTH INFORMATICS BENEFITS FOR A
PATIENT’S HEALTH

➢ EHRs reduce unnecessary tests and procedures. EHR can avoid repeating medical
tests.

➢ Patients access their own health records. to see your health

records, thus identify wrong and missing information and make
additions or corrections as needed.

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 HEALTH INFORMATICS BENEFITS FOR
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

➢ Financial Benefits

About 50% of healthcare costs are wasted due to inefficient

processes.

➢ Time Savings

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 Thanks
See you next week ☺