Group items tagged

COLUMBIANA - Patient medical records at Columbiana Clinic are going paperless. Two of the clinic's four physicians have already made the switch. The other two will follow soon. Once the switch is complete, medical records will exist only in a computer system, not on paper.

Health information systems (HIS) are information management systems that capture and display data related to the delivery of health care services. An HIS is not just a system of computers and software. It includes clinical guidelines, medical terminology dictionaries, and interfaces the various diagnostic devices and other clinical and business information databases, such as laboratory, pharmacy and diagnostic imaging.

Good reference for health info, education, and research information

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patients medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports The EHR automates access to information and has the potential to streamline the clinician's workflow.

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education

Epidemiology A combination of health statistics from various sources, used to derive information about health status, health care, provision and use of services and health impact Informatics Hospital information system A system that provides information management features that hospitals need for daily business Features Pt tracking, billing and administrative programs; may include clinical features Q.

Focused on better preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care, Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform - or TIGER - becomes the TIGER Initiative Foundation, effective July 1, 2011.

Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health & Science University will be offering another Biomedical Informatics Distance Learning Course as part of the AMIA 10x10 Program. The OHSU offering of 10x10 was the original offering in the program and has had the largest enrollment.

JAMIA, the most innovative research journal published in Health and Biomedicine today, delivers the latest research and information about health care's hot new field in a series of free webinars!