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An Introduction to

Medical Informatics

HIBBs is a program of the Global


Health Informatics Partnership

Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0


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Learning Objectives

Define medical informatics

Get a sense of what medical


informatics encompasses

Why is medical informatics important

Some examples of applications


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
mid 50’s MYCIN
1965 Medline
1968 Homer Warner founded the department
of medical informatics
1970 IMIA, MUMPS language and OS
Define Medical Informatics

No clear cut definition


Different schools of thought
Define Medical Informatics

Dr David Zitner


Four aspects of medical informatics:
 Clinical care

 Health service administration

 Research

 Patient and provider education


Define Medical Informatics

Systematic study
Deals with all forms of “data”
 Biological data
 Medical data
 Associated data
Problem solving
Decision making
Define Medical Informatics

Medical informatics is a
scientific/systematic
field of study that deals with the
acquiring, storage,
retrieval, and processing of medical,
biological and associated data,
information and knowledge for the
purpose of problem solving and
decision making
Data, Information, Knowledge

Data are the raw facts obtained

Information is outcome of analyzing data

Knowledge is obtained from analyzing


information
Computerized Medical Records
Computer-Aided Instruction

Medical Software Security


Veterinary Informatics Telemedicine

Medical Nursing Informatics


Policy Making Informatics
Physician Order Entry Systems
Medical Expert Systems
Medical Software Engineering

Health Information Networks


Clinical Information Systems
Why Medical Informatics

Why is proper management of medical


data important ?
• Patient health record
• Administrative purposes
• Research and knowledge discovery
• Legal issues
• And the list goes
Why Medical Informatics

What is lacking in the current


approach ?
• Organizational

• Logistical

• Research

• Passive nature of paper


Medical Informatics Solutions

Databases

Information Retrieval

Internet

Computer programs
Why Medical Informatics

What is lacking in the current paper based


approach ?

Medication errors:

• Patient has allergic reactions

• Wrong medication given to


patient
http://
www8.nationalacademies.org/
onpinews/newsitem.aspx?
recordid=11623 • Wrong dosage given to patient
Medical Informatics Solutions

Medication errors may be prevented by a


simple scanning device
Why Medical Informatics

What is lacking in the current paper based


approach ?
Cost:

• Paper and storage


• Environmental Cost

Time:

• Find record, perform tests


Medical Informatics Solution

3D- Imaging

Other examples of medical informatics


applications
Ultimate goal is to improve the quality
of health care, research and education
in medicine and health
Public Health

Aggregated clinical data can be analyzed to


identify emerging diseases within a region,
country, or around the world.

Public health alerts (e.g., new flu strain) can


be incorporated into clinical information
systems used by primary care clinicians.
Personalized Medicine

Genomic medicine

Manage greater quantities of data and more


complex data over time
Does it Always Work

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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