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Medical informaticsMedical Informatics is the name given to the application of information technology to healthcare. It is the:
- "understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health" (British Medical Informatics Society).
Medical informatics is often called health informatics. This later-generation term reflects the substantive contribution of the citizen and of non-medical professions to the generation and usage of healthcare data.
Aspects of the field
These include:
- architectures for electronic healthcare records
- messages for the exchange of information (for example, through the use of the HL7 data standard)
- decision support systems in healthcare
- terminology systems and domain termlists
- and more mainstream systems and services as they apply particularly in the healthcare domain (such as any security implications unique to the protection of medical data)
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Pharmacy Informatics
News, articles, topical information and a networking facility between pharmacists and information technologists.
http://www.pharmacyinformatics.com
Medical Expert Systems
Resources for medical professionals on the latest computer based decision support systems.
http://www.computer.privateweb.at/judith
Hardin MD: Medical Informatics and Computers
University of Iowa, lists of web sources, software, and computers.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/inform.html
Medical Informatics (Minfor)
Articles on medical informatics. Links to related literature, journals and articles.
http://minfor.net
Medical Informatics
Links to history, associations, articles, definitions. A number of the links are not working.
http://medicalinformatics.netfirms.com/resources.html
Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi - Dot Com Doctor
Basic information on software, hardware, internet, trends, maintenance, articles, reviews, a 'text content summarizer' and links. Indian focused though in English.
http://www.drksm.com
Health Online
Australia's national strategic plan for health information management
http://www.health.gov.au/healthonline/index.html
Health Informatics World Wide
Comprehensive index of links to medical and nursing informatics.
http://www.hiww.org/
Health Informatics FAQ
Answers to various health informatics questions by Professor Vicki Sauter.
http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/health_informatics/agenda.html
Indian Medical Informatics
Weblog categorizing and analyzing medical informatics (and more) with a focus on India. Interactive site with reader discussions, archive, recent item list and search details.
http://www.syedzia.org/blogs/indiamedinfo/
Medical Informatics
Data base with links to medical science, informatics and special diseases.
http://users.epp.teicrete.gr/tasou/MedInfo
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