Abstract
Computers have been used in healthcare for many years for administrative, clinical, and research purposes. Health informatics is concerned with the use of data for the management of disease and the healthcare process. Increasingly health informatics is using data and approaches developed for bioinformatics and vice versa and there are many areas where computational intelligence has the potential to make a useful contribution to health informatics. Health informatics is both a practical profession and an area of research. This chapter deals with the organization of healthcare, areas of development of health informatics in recent times, and some active areas of research that may be relevant.
Keywords
Secondary Care Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support System Personal Health Record Unify Medical Language SystemAbbreviations
- APACHE
acute physiology, age, chronic health evaluation
- BC
blast crisis
- CDSS
clinical decision support system
- DICOM
digital imaging and communications in medicine
- EHR
electronic health record
- GDP
guanosine diphosphate
- GIS
geographical information system
- HIPPA
Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act
- HL7
Health Level 7
- ICD
international classification of disease
- IT
infero temporal cortex
- MeSH
medical subject heading
- NHS
N-hydroxysuccinimidyl
- RCT
randomized controlled trial
- SNOMED
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms
- SNOP
Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology
- UMLS
unified medical language system
- XML
extensible markup language
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