Health informatics (also referred to as medical informatics or biomedical informatics) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with health-related data in healthcare and with the technologies that are used to support healthcare services. While the goal of some health informatics systems is to automate processes, the more common goal is to help ...
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Public Health Informatics in Local and State Health Agencies: An Update From the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To characterize public health informatics (PHI) specialists and identify the informatics needs of the public health workforce. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: US local and state health agencies.
Dixon, Brian E. +3 more
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Personal Health Informatics. Editorial [PDF]
SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2012 IMIA Yearbook.This 2012 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important ...
Kulikowski, C A, Geissbuhler, Antoine
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Health informatics education for clinicians and managers - What's holding up progress? [PDF]
This paper reports outcomes of a national survey of health informatics (HI) education and training carried out in the UK. A questionnaire to elicit details of HI and IT skills teaching was derived from a national consensus document (Learning to Manage ...
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Developing national level informatics competencies for undergraduate nurses : methodological approaches from Australia and Canada [PDF]
Health information systems are being implemented in countries by governments and regional health authorities in an effort to modernize healthcare. With these changes, there has emerged a demand by healthcare organizations for nurses graduating from ...
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Personalized Health Informatics [PDF]
It is indeed exciting to work in a field where challenges evolve rapidly and continuously. This is the privilege of disciplines, such as ours, that lie at the intersection of many scientif ic and societal domains. As physical and digital aspects of our lives mingle increasingly, the prospect of informatics making a real difference to health outcomes ...
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Biofeedback systems for stress reduction: Towards a Bright Future for a Revitalized Field [PDF]
Stress has recently been baptized as the black death of the 21st century, which illustrates its threat to current health standards. This article proposes biofeedback systems as a means to reduce stress.
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Factors associated with statin treatment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people within 2 years following diagnosis of diabetes in Scotland, 2006-2008 [PDF]
© 2014 The Authors. Diabetic Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Diabetes UK. Funded by Scottish Health Informatics Programme.
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Characterizing Informatics Roles and Needs of Public Health Workers: Results from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey [PDF]
Objective: To characterize public health workers who specialize in informatics and to assess informatics-related aspects of the work performed by the public health workforce. Methods (Design, Setting, Participants): Using the nationally representative
Dearth, Shandy +4 more
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Health informatics in UK Medical Education: an online survey of current practice [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Health informatics has growing importance in clinical practice with successive General Medical Council recommendations. However, prior data suggest that undergraduate medical education largely neglects this area.
Banerjee, A, Taylor, P, Walpole, S
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