Chapters

Introduction

  • Introduction To Health Informatics

What is Digital?

  • What is Digital?
  • Hardware
  • Software

Health and Disease

  • What is Health?
  • What is Disease?
  • Population Health

Digital Health System Types

  • Types of Digital healthcare systems (- EHR, PAS, PACS, patient portals, TIE).
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth (duplicate)

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Infrastructure

  • Healthcare IT Infrastructure
  • Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Interoperability

  • Interoperability
  • Data standards
  • Interoperability

Terminologies

  • SNOMED-CT
  • Read Codes
  • ICD

History

  • NHS UK
  • History of Digital Health in other Countries

Governance

  • Regulatory and Policy Issues
  • Standards and Regulatory Compliance
  • Medicolegal Aspects

Safety

  • Clinical safety

Audit

  • Quality Improvement

Patient-Focused Informatics

  • Patient Engagement and Empowerment
  • Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Informatics
  • Behavioural Health Informatics
  • Digital Therapeutics and Remote Monitoring
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth
  • Mobile Health (mHealth)

Privacy, Security, and Ethics

  • Privacy and Security
  • Ethics
  • Diversity

Business

  • Health Economics and Informatics
  • Leadership and Governance
  • Process Mapping
  • Clinical Workflow and Process Improvement
  • Change Management
  • Communication Skills
  • Business Process
  • Evaluation and Impact Assessment
  • Interprofessional Collaboration (Role of Clinical Informaticians in Interdisciplinary Teams
  • Collaboration with Clinicians, IT professionals, administrators, etc. Effective communication strategies)

Building Digital Systems

  • Machine / Human Interface
  • Usability and User Experience (UX)
  • Programming in Clinical Informatics
  • Testing

Research

  • Research and Development in Clinical Informatics
  • Clinical Trials and Research Informatics

Further reading

Glossary