Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data,[1] which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic health records, diagnostic test results, medical scans. The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques.Health informatics is a spectrum of multidisciplinary fields that includes study of the design, development and application of computational innovations to improve health care.The disciplines involved combines medicine fields with computing fields, in particular computer engineering, software engineering, information engineering, bioinformatics, bio-inspired computing, theoretical computer science, information systems, data science, information technology, autonomic computing, and behavior informatics.In academic institutions, medical informatics research focus on applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare and designing medical devices based on embedded systems. In some countries term informatics is also used in the context of applying library science to data management in hospitals.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (49 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter1
Research Strategies for Biomedical and Health Informatics: Some Thought-provoking and Critical Proposals to Encourage Scientific Debate on the Nature of Good Research in Medical Informatics
- Chapter2
Development of medical informatics in China over the past 30 years from a conference perspective and a Sino-American comparison
- Chapter3
Evidence-Based Health Informatics as the Foundation for the COVID-19 Response: A Joint Call for Action
- Chapter4
Health informatics publication trends in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis over the last twenty-four years
- Chapter5
Steps in Moving Evidence-Based Health Informatics from Theory to Practice
- Chapter6
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform – TIGER : An International Recommendation Framework of Core Competencies in Health Informatics for Nurses
- Chapter7
European Federation for Medical Informatics – the Most Influential Promoter of Medical Informatics Development for the Past 45 Years
- Chapter8
A Comparison of the Development of Medical Informatics in China and That in Western Countries from 2008 to 2018: A Bibliometric Analysis of Official Journal Publications
- Chapter9
Does health informatics have a replication crisis?
- Chapter10
Integrating community-based participatory research and informatics approaches to improve the engagement and health of underserved populations
- Chapter11
Making the case for workforce diversity in biomedical informatics to help achieve equity-centered care: a look at the AMIA First Look Program
- Chapter12
Publication trends in the medical informatics literature: 20 years of "Medical Informatics" in MeSH
- Chapter13
On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems: Lessons Learned during 16 Years of Frank – van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management in Health Information Systems
- Chapter14
A bibliometric analysis of medical informatics and telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa and BRICS nations
- Chapter15
Electronic Health Informatics Data To Describe Clearance Dynamics of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) and e Antigen (HBeAg) in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Health informatics.
Reinhold Haux
Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Germany
Casimir A. Kulikowski
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA
Suzanne Bakken
School of Nursing and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Simon de Lusignan
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Sabine Koch
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Health Informatics Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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