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Health Informatics

Health Informatics. Graham Wright MSc Programme Director. Imagination is more important than knowledge" – Albert Einstein. Enrico’s view. If physiology literally means 'the logic of life', and pathology is 'the logic of disease', then medical informatics is the logic of healthcare.

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Health Informatics

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  1. Health Informatics Graham Wright MSc Programme Director

  2. Imagination is more important than knowledge" – Albert Einstein

  3. Enrico’s view If physiology literally means 'the logic of life', and pathology is 'the logic of disease', then medical informatics is the logic of healthcare. It is the rational study of the way we think about patients, and the way that treatments are defined, selected and evolved. It is the study of how medical knowledge is created, shaped, shared and applied Enrico Coiera 1997

  4. Health Informatics Health Informatics is having a mid-life crisis, it is a 45 year old profession wandering around the desert to find itself Yuval Shahar (2001) IMIA Invited Satellite Working Conference ‘Challenges in Medical Informatics – successes and failures’ , Madrid March 2001

  5. 1. Definitions • Informatics • Medical Informatics • Nursing Informatics • Clinical Informatics • Health Informatics

  6. Informatics • the application of information technologies to optimize the information management function within an organization

  7. Informatics • information management • information technology

  8. Information management • assuring that the right information is available to the right people, within and without an organization, at the right time and place, and for the right price

  9. Information technology • any technology which processes and communicates data, includes: • computers, voice, data and image sensing and communications devices, graphics devices, multi-media storage, etc. • pen, paper, telephones and fax machines

  10. Health or Medical Informatics The terms 'medical informatics' and 'health informatics' have been variously defined, but can be best understood as the understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health. 'Health informatics' is now tending to replace the previously commoner term 'medical informatics', reflecting a widespread concern to define an information agenda for health services which recognises the role of citizens as agents in their own care, as well as the major information-handling roles of the non-medical healthcare professions. BMIS (2002)

  11. Medical Informatics "the science of analysis, documentation, steering, control and synthesis of information processes within the health care delivery system, especially in the classical environment and medical practice". Recihertz P Protokoll der Klausurtagung Ausbildungsziele, Inhalte und Methoden in der Medizinischen Informatik Ulm: Reisenberg/b. 1973

  12. Nursing Informatics "A combination of computer science, information science and nursing science designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data and the delivery of nursing care". Graves JR, Cocoran S The Study of Nursing Informatics Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship Vol. 21, p. 227, 1989

  13. Nursing Informatics "Integration of nursing, its information and information management with information processing and communications technology to support world health". IMIA Nursing Informatics 6th International Congress Stockholm, October 1997

  14. Health Informatics "The study of nature and principles of information and its applications within all aspects of health care delivery and promotion". Protti DJ A New Undergraduate Program in Health/Medical Informatics AMIA Proceedings Masson Publishing, 1982

  15. Health Informatics • Health informatics is seen as to be concerned with the individual and group behaviour of health care personnel in their interaction with information and information technologies. • Medical informatics is seen to be rooted in medicine and computer science • the social, organizational, and policy aspects of information technology are not usually taken into consideration

  16. International view Health informatics is concerned with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in medicine and healthcare. The domain covers computational and informational aspects of processes and structures, applicable to any clinical or managerial discipline within the health sector whether on a tele (remote) basis or not. Health informatics is delivered by operational health practitioners, academic researchers and educators, scientists and technologists in operational, commercial and academic domains Jean Roberts – Medinfo2001

  17. Bodies of knowledge • hard sciences • biology and clinical chemistry • computer science • engineering • mathematics and physics • soft sciences • economics • information science • management science • psychology • sociology • medicine and other health care professions

  18. Areas of instruction and learning A. Information 1. Management 2. Technology B. Healthcare Organizations 1. Clinical (Delivery) 2. Management

  19. A. Information 1. Management • Data - Information - Wisdom Spectrum • Power and value of information • Data modeling and data standards • Coding, classification, nomenclature • Data analysis & statistical methods • Systems analysis and design • Information sources (local, national, international) • Managing information resources

  20. A. Information 2. Technology • Hardware processing and storage technologies • Computer languages • Software: operating systems, databases, application • Communications technologies • Local Area Networks • Intranets and the Internet • Telematicss/telemedicine • Infusion/diffusion theories • Effectiveness metrics • Security and Confidentiality

  21. B. Healthcare Organizations1. Clinical (Delivery) • History and culture of clinicians • Clinical practice content and process • Clinical practice guidelines and protocols • Evidence-based decision making • Decision support and expert systems • Health outcomes and health status • Epidemiology • Population health

  22. B. Healthcare Organizations 2. Management • organization theory and models • communications theories • management process and practice • organizational development and change management • health economics and fiscal management • resource allocation models • individual and group decision support systems • ethics and legislation

  23. Failure to:- • understand the nature of different clinical practices and its consequence for the use of technology; • understand the nature of the relationship between clinical staff and management which might predispose clinical staff to oppose introduction of a clinical information system; • recognise wider imperatives and set ill-conceived targets; • choose robust, transferable, extendable and proven technologies which, for example, do not inhibit future developments; • take into account research and evaluation of informational developments such as terming and classification systems; • relate the technologies to the imperatives; • recognise the clinical imperative need to treat more patients at least as well in less time using new systems;

  24. Failure to:- • create an affordable and practical technology financial plan from a high level strategy; • involve the future users in such a way that their input is meaningful to determine system requirements and to gain their subsequent ownership • prepare and develop individuals and the organisation to make effective use of information technologies; • implement in an orderly and timely way; • actually check whether the technologies are meeting expectations and requirements, whether the system is highly valued and to react accordingly

  25. Stages of the model1 to 4 • Assesses and understands what and for what reasons things happen • Assesses and understands the context and identifies consequences for clinical work and imperatives for change • Selects and prioritises opportunities, problems, imperatives and requirements for change • Knows of appropriate technological developments and relates them to information requirements; knows of opportunities and imperatives for change

  26. Stages of the model5 to 8 • Creates an information and technology and strategy plan • Involves, informs, persuades, prepares for these technologies and other changes • Plans and introduces new technologies and other changes • Evaluates, reviews and assesses the impact and values it

  27. ‘hybrid’ managers-informaticians • select the appropriate information and communication technologies, • involve perceived beneficiaries, • identify the prospective benefits, • successfully plan, implement and evaluate the impact of change

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