Module 1 Lecture 1 What Is Informatics
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MATHANKUMAR.SFourth Year Course in Medical Informatics
What is Medical Informatics?
Dr Peter Cantillon Mr. Ben Kanagaratnum
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
Medical Informatics is the study of how medical knowledge is created, shaped, shared and applied.
Enrico Coiera 1997
Information Science
Medical Informatics?
Information Technology
Types
Sources Flow
Information Science
Processing Classification
Value
Information Science Perception Interpretation Processing information Memory and recall
Strategic learning
Application in context
Information technology
Storing
Processing Analysing Information
Transmitting
Displaying
Informatics
Information Science
Information Technology
Health Care
Incidental
Medical
Management
Clinical
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
Why bother?
Managing information
Greater speed and efficiency Facilitating evidence based practice
Improving communication
Shared environment with patients Momentum toward IT solutions
Why bother with medical informatics????? Overloaded curriculum
Running to stand still
Information explosion
Drowning in an ocean facts
Empowered patients
Medical uncertainty
Appendicitis
Pain site, character, severity
Is medicine a science?
Associated symptoms Is there uncertainty in medicine?
If so why is there uncertainty in medicine?
Physical signs
If so where does it occur in medical practice?
Low grade fever
Medical uncertainty
40% removed at the appropriate time
30% perforated at the time of operation 30% lily-white
Making decisions within an uncertain context
Communicating information
Doctor to doctor communication Doctor to nurse communication Doctor to patient communication Coding/defining medical phenomena
The true meaning of any utterance is that which is construed.....
Is the saying doctors differ and patients die true??
Inadequate communication
Different information gathering skills
Attention to detail Different interpretation skills In-built speciality biases Patient factors
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
How is used? Electronic patient record
Research and audit
Evidence based medicine
Communication
Diary and personal management Decision support systems
Internet diagram
Virtual Private Networks
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) run over the Internet and transparently encrypt the links between sites. Dr. B. O Mahoney
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
What this course is about?
Ensuring basic IT skills Medical uses of the internet and on-line databases Review of relevant statistical knowledge
How medical truth is derived
Introduction to EBM How doctors make decisions Electronic patient records
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
Assessment
Mini thesis (September-January) OSCE ! MCQ (February 2002) (February 2002)
The Berman Prize is worth the effort
Medical Informatics?
What is Medical Informatics?
Why bother with it? How is it used?
What will this course be about?
How will I be assessed? How will this course benefit me?
