Health Informatics
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Simply put Health Informatics (HI) is the academic field or profession of 1) applying computers to medicine and 2) studying and developing theories of information and knowledge and thought processes of the practitioner-users, that is the cognitive science and cognitive engineering of physicians, nurses and all users of these information devices.
HI is a field of intersections of many professions in the medical fields and computer sciences and engineering, human-computer interaction (HCI), cognitive science, psychology and many more.
HI covers a spectrum from applications (getting something to work) to theory (studying how it works or why it doesn't).
There are many special interests within HI which match up with the many particular specialties in medicine, such as nursing, radiology, imaging, laboratory medicine (pathology) as well as emergency medicine.
[edit] External Links
AMIA Principal professional organization of general health informatics.
NCEMI National Center of Emergency Medicine Informatics - Excellent Emergency Medicine stuff -
eMedicine/emerg eMedicine Online Textbook of Emergency Medicine
- Traditional Textbook format Online Emergency Medicine Text
- (and many other medical texts now)
- authored, controlled content chapters, look like traditional textbook chapters, but online and free
