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What is Medical Informatics?
Health Informatics
Healthcare Informatics
Biomedical Informatics
Definition
• “The scientific field that deals with biomedical information, data, and knowledge—their storage, retrieval, and optimal use for problem-solving and decision-making.” Shortliffe et. al.
Component Sciences
• Computer Science
• Decision Science
• Cognitive Science
• Information Science
• Management Science
• Health Science
Questions and Concerns of Health Professionals
• Will computers replace physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals?
• Should they be highly trained in computer science also to practice their profession?
• Are we moving towards robotic medicine?
Medical Informatics Methods, Techniques, and Theories
Public Health Informatics
Nursing Informatics
Clinical Informatics
Veterinary Informatics
Dental Informatics
Bioinformatics
Imaging Informatics
Basic Research
Applied Research
Shortliffe et. al.
Medical Informatics Methods, Techniques, and Theories
Public Health Informatics
Nursing Informatics
Clinical Informatics
Veterinary Informatics
Dental Informatics
Bioinformatics
Imaging Informatics
Basic Research
Applied Research
Shortliffe et. al.
Nature of Medical Informatics
• It is an experimental science• Basic research questions• Applications research• Some consensus that the core discipline is
identical• Unified medical informatics educational
programs • Brings together students from a wide
variety of applications interests
Specialized Hardware and Programming Languages?
• In general medical informatics applications use existing computer hardware
• A specialized programming language called MUMPS was developed in the early seventies for medical records processing
• The software requirements of medicine (healthcare) do not seem to be unique
Relationship to Biomedical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering focuses on Instrumentation– Advanced monitoring systems– Imaging devices like ultra sound, CT scans,
MRI devices etc.
• Medical Informatics emphasizes– Medical information and knowledge– Information and knowledge management
using computers
Nature of Medical Information
• Clinical information differs from that of Physics, Chemistry or Engineering
• Medical information incorporates uncertainty
Resources: Professional Organizations
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) www.amia.org
• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) www.imia.org
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) www.ahima.org
• The National Library of Medicine (NLM) www.nlm.nih.gov
Resources: Journals
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• Methods of Information in Medicine
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
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