Lecture No. 1

By

Muhammad Ali Bohyo

A Course on Medical Informatics and Research Analysis

Lecture No. 1

Imagination is more important than knowledge" –

Albert Einstein

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To introduce application of statistical tools in Medicine

• To introduce understanding and application of E-health systems with practical approach

• To familiarize the concept of Medical Imaging with emphasis on DICOM

• To introduce different Medical Informatics related standards

• To introduce coding systems and controlled medical vocublary

CONTENTS

• Electronic Clinical Information Systems

• Structured recording of data

• HL7

• Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

• Systematic Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)

• Decision Support

• Medical imaging (DICOM)

Informatics

• The application of information technologies to optimize the information management function within an organization

Informatics

• Information management

• Information technology

Information management

• Assuring that the right information is available to the right people, within and without an organization, at the right time and place, and for the right price

Information technology

• Any technology which processes and communicates data, includes:

– computers, voice, data and image sensing and communications devices, graphics devices, multi-media storage, etc.

– pen, paper, telephones and fax machines

Health Informatics

• Health informatics is seen as to be concerned with the individual and group behavior of health care personnel in their interaction with information and information technologies.

• Medical informatics is seen to be rooted in medicine and computer science

Medical Informatics

“The theory and practice of using information responsibly in the context of healthcare“.

Informatics

• Bioinformatics

–Really biomolecular informatics

• Medical informatics

– Really clinical informatics

• Biomedical informatics

–Covers both and more

Medical informatics: Controlled Terminology

• A finite, enumerated set of terms intended to convey information unambiguously– Diagnostic Procedures

– Therapeutic Procedures

– Medications

– Diagnoses

– Findings

– Organisms

– Anatomy

44,000 to 98,000 patients die from medical errors every year in US hospitals.

More people die from medical errors in hospitalization than from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.

Institute of Medicine (Dec. 1999)