Health informatics terms

1.      Pharmacy informatics: As the name implies, pharmacy informatics refers to the scientific field
that focuses on medication-related data and knowledge within the continuum of
healthcare systems – including its acquisition, storage, analysis, use and
dissemination – in the delivery of optimal medication-related patient care and health
outcomes.

2.     
Health information
management informatics:
The practice of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and
traditional medical
information vital to providing quality patient care making use of information
technology gadgets
3.        
Clinical informatics:
Clinical informatics is the study of information
technology and how it can be applied to the healthcare field. It includes the
study and practice of an information-based approach to healthcare delivery in
which data must be structured in a certain way to be effectively retrieved and
used in a report or evaluation. Clinical informatics can be applied in a range
of healthcare settings including hospital, physician’s practice, military and
others.
 
4.        
Nursing informatics: Nursing informatics is the specialty that
integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical
sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information,
knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports nurses, consumers,
patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in
their decision-making in all roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes.
This support is accomplished through the use of information structures,
information processes, and information technology.
  
5.        
Consumer impact informatics: Consumer
impact informatics
is
the field devoted to informatics from multiple consumer or patient views. These
include patient-focused informatics, health literacy and consumer education.
The focus is on information structures and processes that empower consumers to
manage their own health.
6.        
Environmental informatics: Environmental informatics is the science of information applied to environmental
science
. As
such, it provides the
information
processing
and
communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental
sciences
aiming at data, information and knowledge
integration
, the
application of
computational
intelligence
to environmental data as well as the identification of environmental
impacts
of information
technology
.
7.        
Medical laboratory informatics: Medical laboratory informatics is the specialized application of information
technology aimed at optimizing and extending medical laboratory operations. It
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
).
8.        
Dentistry informatics: Dentistry informatics is concerned with the
intersection of Health Informatics and dentistry as a whole. It is a
specialization within health Informatics, a multi-disciplinary field that seeks
to improve dental health care through the application of Health Information
Technology (HIT) and information science to dental health care delivery.
9.        
Biomedical informatics: Biomedical Informatics is the field that is
concerned 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 research
10.    Medical automated
informatics: This is a branch of medical data processing that deals the
acquiring, storing, retrieving, computing, disseminating and communication of
medical information in an automated means. This makes use of specialised programmes that work in an automated format unaided.
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