The Guide to Health Informatics 3rd Edition

 

Part 1 – Basic Concepts in Informatics

1. Models

2. Information

3. Systems

 

Part 2 – Clinical Informatics Skills

4. Communication

5. Structuring

6. Questioning

7. Searching

8. Making decisions

 

Part 3 – Information Systems in Healthcare

9. Information management systems

10. The Electronic Health Record

11. Designing and evaluating information and communication systems

12. Implementation

13. Information System safety

14. Information economics

 

Part 4 – Guideline and Protocol-based Systems

15. Guidelines, protocols and evidence-based healthcare

16. Computer-based protocol systems

17. Designing, disseminating and applying protocols

 

Part 5 – Communication Systems in Healthcare

18. Communication system basics

19. Interlude – The Internet and World Wide Web

20. Information and Communication networks

21. Social networks and social media interventions

22. Telehealth and mobile health

 

Part 6 – Language, Coding and Classification

23. Terms, codes and classification

24 Healthcare terminologies and classification systems

25. Natural language and formal terminology

 

Part 7 – Clinical Decision Support and Analytics

26. Clinical Decision Support Systems

27. Interlude – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

28. Computational reasoning methods

29. Model Building for Decision Support, Data Analysis and Scientific Discovery

 

Part 8 – Specialised applications for health informatics

30. Patient monitoring and control

31. Population surveillance and public health informatics

32. Bioinformatics

33. Clinical Bioinformatics and Personalized Medicine

34. Consumer Informatics