Introduction to Informatics for Health Care Professionals

TODAY

● Understand course structure, activities, and expectations

● Define Health Technologies, Health IT, and Health Informatics

● Discuss Journal Entry 1 & next week

COURSE STRUCTURE• Canvas site structureoSyllabusoWeekly Moduleso In-Class/Out-of-Class ExpectationsoAssignments

Journal Entries Infographic

oQuestions?

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

• “Healthcare technology is defined as prevention and rehabilitation, vaccines, pharmaceuticals and devices, medical and surgical procedures, and the systems within which health is protected and maintained.”

(International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment)

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

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HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)• “the application of information

processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making.”

HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)

HEALTH ITHealth information technology

HEALTH IT

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BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

Biomedical informatics (BMI) is the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.

www.amia.org

INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OFBIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

BiomedicalInformatics

Cognitive Science& Decision Making

ManagementSciences

ClinicalSciences

Basic BiomedicalSciences

EpidemiologyAnd Statistics

Bioengineering

Computer Science

(hardware)

Computer Science

(software)

SOMETIMES ITS NOT RIGHT...

AMIA CORE COMPETENCIES• Acquire professional perspective• Analyze problems• Produce solutions• Articulate the rationale• Implement, evaluate, and refine• Innovate• Work collaboratively• Disseminate and discusshttps://www.amia.org/biomedical-informatics-core-competencies

Ask

Search

Appraise

Integrate

Evaluate outcomes

Disseminate

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE PROCESS

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICEEBP is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care.

NEXT STEPS• 1/15 - Journal Entry 1

• NO CLASS ON JAN. 16

• Outside activities:oMini-lecture on consumer health

informaticsoConsumer health informatics activity

(takes 3 days – PLAN AHEAD)o 1/22 – Activity reflection due

• 1/23 - Class