Health informatics (HI) is the design, development and execution of IT resources, specifically for medical health business processes. It is the coupling and alignment of IT and health sciences to build comprehensive health information systems providing specialized IT services for the health care industr...
A Health Information Exchange (also called a health data exchange) is a technology solution that enables healthcare providers and organizations to share patient information electronically between systems that would otherwise not be connected. You can think of the HIE as a data clearinghouse among many...
Biomedical informatics is a discipline dating back to the 1950s that continues to evolve with the growth of data and advances in technology in biomedicine and health care. This field brings together foundational approaches from many scientific and technological disciplines that can be applied across ...
or electronic medical record (EMR), is a person's official, digital health record and is shared among multiple healthcare providers and agencies. Other key elements of the health IT infrastructure are the personal health record (PHR), which is a person's self-maintained health reco...
Reda Chouffani runs the consulting practice he co-founded, Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. He is a healthcare informatics consultant, cloud expert and a business intelligence architect who helps enterprise clients make the best use of technology to streamline operations and improve productivity....
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote the best use of IT and management systems in the healthcare industry. The organization provides thought leadership, professional and workforce development and public policy. Th...
Due to the Internet technology, hundreds of Web sites are accessible for medical information, and the retrieval of such information is quite rapid. Once you as a consumer obtain all of this information, how do you determine whether the information you are looking at is valid and current and ...
A sonographer is an integral part of the healthcare industry because of the important role he or she plays in diagnosing illnesses and injuries. While working alongside surgeons and physicians, sonographers create tests and images of the body using special imagining equipment. Sonographers are also...
In a preview of his upcoming HIMSS24 session, Dr. Jonathan Chen, assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, offers perspective on discerning what's real in AI, what's hype and what it all means for patient care.
Healthcare costs and utilization for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's p pBackground/p pAlzheimers disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder incurring significant social and economic costs. This study uses a US administrati... Y Zhao,TC Kuo,S Weir,... - 《Bmc Health Services Research》...