Health informatics

Gustafson DH, Hawkins RP, Boberg EW, et al. CHESS 10 years of research and development in consnmer health informatics for broad populations, inclnding the underserved. Int J Med Inform 2002 65 169-77. 

Bioinformatics and Health Informatics Methods for Decision Support in Personalized Medicine... 

Figure 6.1 Health informatics security infrastructure based on public key infrastructure...

The following list provides typical clinical support applications that can be integrated with the health informatics solution for decision support and outcome analysis. The applications that exist throughout the regional health authority jurisdictions can be categorized as follows ... 

From the statements above it is clear that most thinkers in the field would consider that the developments to be described later fail to capture and utilize the full answer as to what knowledge is. The sense in that field is, however, that steps are being made in the right direction. There is much to be built that is pressingly needed without needing to understand the true nature of knowledge, because at least we know it when we see it. And the idea anyway is that currently emerging systems architectures as health informatics solutions and biomedical informatics solutions will provide the essential bedrock for what comes next. 

Figure 8.1 High-level view of an integrated health informatics platform...

Classical epidemiologists as disease detectives may have got there in the end, but they probably barely scratched the information that might have been potentially available somewhere, and certainly could not do so today. Understanding the properties and attributes of health informatics or life sciences informatics for translational medical research is important because scientific advancement is becoming increasingly dependent on the ability to manage massive amounts of data and solve computationally intense problems. For example, the fact that there are approximately 32,000 human genes that translate into 1.5 million proteins makes the ability to handle enormous amounts of data a clear priority. 

Content management based on the traditional OLAP repository will not suffice the needs of health informatics or life sciences informatics that manages multidimensional data on a real-time basis and also in an adaptive mode, especially because of the passive and static nature of the repository. 

The key properties of the health informatics or life sciences informatics repository are summarized below ... 

Figure 8.7 Conceptual architecture of health informatics content management...

The national e-Health Informatics System dynamically retrieves Jane s health records from various places where Jane has ever visited (e.g., physician s office system, hospitals, diagnostic labs) based on Jane s global person identifier and dynamically constructs an integrated health record up to date from birth, which includes Jane s genetic profiles and lifestyle data. The physician then analyzes Jane s personal health record for analysis of clinical and treatment history. 

L. G. Kun. 2001. Tele health and the global health network in the 21st century From homecare to public health informatics. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 64 155-167. 

J. Brender, C. Nohr, and P. McNair. 2000. Research needs and priorities in health informatics. International Journal of Medical Informatics 58-59 257-289. 

Liu, J., Huang, M.-C., Xu, W., Zhang, X., Stevens, L., Alshurafa, N., Sarrafzadeh, M., 2013a. BreathSens a continuous on-bed respiratory monitoring system with torso localization using an imobtrusive pressure sensing array. IF.FF. Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. http //dx.doi.0rg/lO.l 109/IBHI.2014.2344679. 

Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 A. Stavert-Dobson, Health Information Systems Managing Clinical Risk, Health Informatics, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26612-l l... 

Rigby M, Forsstrom J, Roberts R, Wyatt J. Verifying quality and safety in health informatics services. BMJ. 2001 323 552. 

International Organization for Standardization. ISO/TC 215 N1143 - ISO/DTR 17791 -Health informatics — guidance on standards for enabling safety in health software. 2013. 

International Organization for Standardization. ISO/TS 25238 2007 (Health informatics -classification of safety risks from health software). Technical Specification. 2007. 

ISO/TS 25238 2007 (Health informatics - Classification of safety risks from health software) [9] proposes a framework for assigning HIT systems into one of five risk categories. The standard is aimed at HIT products which are not medical devices but could lead to patient harm - as with many other standards in this area financial and other types of risk are excluded from scope. 

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