Health informatics terms

1.      Pharmacy informatics: Pharmacy
informatics
also
referred to as pharmacoinformatics is an applied information science and
defined as a unique subset of medical
informatics focusing on the use of information technologies and drug
information to optimize medication usage
. It is also defined as the use and integration of data,
information, knowledge, technology, and automation in the medication-use
process for the purpose of improving health outcomes.

2.      Health information management informatics: This is a branch of health
informatics that make use of information technology in the practice
of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital
and traditional medical
information vital to providing quality patient care.
3.     
Clinical informatics: Clinical Informatics is the application of informatics and information
technology to deliver healthcare services. It is also referred to as applied
clinical informatics and operational informatics. Clinical informatics includes
a wide range of topics ranging from clinical decision support to visual images
(e.g. radiological, pathological, dermatological, ophthalmological, etc); from
clinical documentation to provider order entry systems; and from system design
to system implementation and adoption issues.
4.     
Nursing informatics: Nursing
Informatics is the “science and
practice that integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with
management of information and communication technologies to promote the health
of people, families, and communities worldwide.
The application of nursing
informatics knowledge is empowering for all healthcare practitioners in
achieving patient centered care. Nurse informaticians work as developers of
communication and information technologies, educators, researchers, chief
nursing officers, chief information officers, software engineers,
implementation consultants, policy developers, and business owners, to advance
healthcare.
5.        
Consumer impact informatics: The
term Consumer impact informatics
refers to the field devoted to informatics from multiple consumer or
patient views. The focus is on information structures and processes that
empower consumers to manage their own health. This field of informatics focuses
on patients’ health literacy and consumer education.
6.        
Environmental informatics: Environmental Informatics is a field of that
develop and use analytical and computer-based methods to assess and protect the
earth’s natural resources. In this field the use of information technology is
applied across fields as diverse as social sustainable systems, and terrestrial
and aquatic ecosystem management.
7.        
Medical laboratory informatics: Medical laboratory informatics encompasses data acquisition, instrument interfacing, medical laboratory networking, data processing, specialized data management systems (such as a chromatography data
system
), a laboratory
information management system
, scientific data management (including data mining and data warehousing), and knowledge management (including the use of an electronic lab
notebook
). It is
the specialized application of information technology aimed at optimizing and
extending medical laboratory operations. It
8.        
Dentistry informatics: Dental informatics is the application of computer
and information science to improve dental practice, and management. It is a
sub-discipline of biomedical informatics. Many confuse dental informatics with
the mere application of computers Informatics is a research discipline, and
much of its basic research is about information, not computers.
9.        
Biomedical informatics: This field of
informatics is basically deals
with
the optimal use of information, often aided by the use of technology and
people, to improve individual health, health care, public health, and
biomedical sciences.
10.    Medical automated
informatics: Medical automated informatics makes use of specialised programmes that work in an automated format unaided. This
branch of health informatics deals with medical data processing that deals the
acquiring, storing, retrieving, computing, disseminating and communication of
medical information in an automated means.

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