Center for Medical Informatics, Department of Medicine
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Medical Informatics: A Description
Mission Statement To improve patient care, support research and expand the boundaries of education through the scientific application of information management (i.e., Medical Informatics). Patient care can be improved by freeing health care providers from information management so that they can fulfill their primary mission: patient care. Clinical research is hindered by a lack of adequate and/or organized patient information. A significant part of medical education should be clinical experience but often consists of significant periods of information management (getting test results, tracking old charts, finding pmd). Additionally, information sources need to be more directly linked to care. |
edical Informatics
can best be thought of as an interdisciplinary field of scientific endeavor
concerned with the management of information in the medical sciences.
Medical Informatics deals with a diverse range of topics that includes:
the Electronic Medical Record, Order Entry, Decision Support, Data and
Knowledge Representation, Controlled and Structured Vocabularies, Data
Acquisition and Presentation, Interface Design, Information Retrieval,
Management Issues, and Standards.