Chapters

Introduction

What is Digital?

  • Digital
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • key-digital-concepts-in-health-informatics

Health and Disease

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

Healthcare Professionals Facing Systems

  • Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
  • Patient administration system (PAS)
  • Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
  • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
  • Trust integration system (TIE)
  • Speciality specific systems

Patient Facing Systems

  • Patient portals
  • Digital Therapeutics
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth
  • Wearables

Infrastructure

  • Network Infrastructure
  • Health Information Exchange (HIE)
  • Cloud Computing versus On-Premise

History of Digital Health Across the Globe

  • NHS England

Clinical safety

  • Clinical safety standards (UK)
  • Risk Management

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

  • Medical calculators
  • Alert systems
  • Rules based
  • Models based (eg AI)

Interoperability

  • Data standards
  • HL7/FHIR
  • OpenEHR

Terminologies

  • SNOMED-CT
  • Read Codes
  • ICD-10

Privacy, Security, and Ethics

  • Privacy and Security
  • Cybersecurity
  • GDPR
  • Ethics
  • Diversity

Governance

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

Leadership, Collaboration, and Strategy

  • Health Economics and Informatics
  • Leadership and Management
  • The Interprofessional Team
  • Communication Skills
  • Change Management

Workflow Optimisation

  • Process Mapping
  • Clinical Workflow and Process Improvement
  • Business Process

Quality Improvement and Evaluation

  • Audit
  • Quality Improvement
  • Evaluation and Impact Assessment

Usability and User Experience

  • User-centred Design
  • A/B testing

Patient Focused Informatics

  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Behavioural Change Methodologies
  • Patient Engagement and Empowerment

Building Digital Systems

  • The Machine / Human Interface
  • Programming in Clinical Informatics
  • Open Source versus Closed Source
  • Agile / DevOps Methodologies
  • Quality Assurance via Testing

Innovation and Future Directions

  • Digital Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Digital Twins and Simulation in Healthcare
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Genomic Informatics and Precision Medicine
  • Blockchain Technology in Healthcare

Research and Development

  • Clinical Trials
  • OpenSafely

Education and Training

  • Undergraduate level
  • Postgraduate level
  • Continuous Professional Development

In Depth Case Studies

Further reading

Glossary

Bibliography

Author’s guide

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