Medical Informatics
Intersection between Medical Knowledge, Computers , and application of the such knowledge to improve the patient care , research and cut down costs.
IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS DOMAIN ARE AS FOLLOWS
1.
Introduction and definitions of Health care
informatics
2.
Brief history of computers and health care –
Saudi Association of health informatics established in 2006
3.
Structure of a computer system- hard ware , software,
connectivity –wired wireless – Networking and servers – Internet its
development and its role in health care
4.
Informatics applications – clinic level-
hospital level- university level- regional ‘At Taif’- country level for Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia- Global level CDC- monitoring spread of diseases across the
globe
5.
Telemedicine concepts
6.
Patient portals – their uses and abuses
7.
Cloud computing – applications in health care
8.
Surveillance and epidemiology – role for health
informatics
9.
EBH evidence based healthcare- seamlessly
merging with Health informatics
1. Digital radiology and imaging- role in film less
domains- forensic dentistry applications
1. Future trends-for health informatics a. artificial
intelligence – medical algorithms
b. Global patient ID and Web based medical record
c. computer assisted medical diagnosis
d. Longitudinal life time records – transferable all over the globe
Medical informatics,
is an interdisciplinary field of study that emphasizes the use of computer
technology to help organize, analyze, manage and use information in improving
health care.
Its chief
goals are to develop standards and clinical guidelines,
formalize medical terminology,
coding and classification,
enhance the
usability of health information systems to facilitate communication
and manage
the flow of information from physicians to patients and vice-versa.
Without medical informatics the patient care will proceed at this pace...............
