What is Health Informatics? HI Goals HI stakeholders HI subfields / subspecialties Healthcare trends & HI HI professional environments HI education / training opportunities & degrees HI organizations / journals / meetings / events HI professional certificates HI books

2. What is Health Informatics?
HI Goals
HI stakeholders
HI subfields / subspecialties
Healthcare trends & HI
HI professional environments
HI education / training opportunities & degrees
HI organizations / journals / meetings / events
HI professional certificates
HI books

7. “The scientific field that deals with
biomedical information, data and
knowledge their storage, retrieval,
and optimal use for problem solving
and decision-making”.
(Shortliffe&Blois,2001)

8. The field concerned with the optimal
use of information, often aided by
technology, to improve individual
health, healthcare, public health, and
biomedical research

10. 1.Right information: accurate - meaningful
2. Right person
3. Right time
4. Right place: accessible at the point of care
5. Right amount: faster decisions - appropriately-
selective information

12. • IOM report:
The modern healthcare professional
must have competency in informatics
as part of larger goal to provide
patient-centered care
(Greiner, 2003)

15. • Nursing Informatics

16. • Consumer Health Informatics

17. Patient
Safety
Care
Coordination
HI
Cost
Control
EBM
TQM

19. Academic Research
Facilities
Health Care
Providers
Health Care
Related
Industries

21. • Health informatics is an umbrella term for
wide range of careers.
• US News and World Report referred to health
informatics as among the top 10 “ahead of
the curve” careers

22. Since a highly multi-disciplinary field
No standard curriculum or
accreditation
Many programs with diverse
curricula

23. • Undergraduate:
1. Bachelor’s Degree
• Post-Graduate:
1. PG Certificate
2. PG Diploma
3. Master ( MSc – MRes )
4. Fellowship
5. PhD

24. • PPG HI Diploma : HITSTC ( Health Information
Technology & Statistics Training Center ) – NIC
( National Information Center ) – EMOH (
Egyptian Ministry of Health )
Duration: 1 year ( 12 months )
HITSTC is HIMSS Partner

25. • Not available in Egypt
• Offered by many universities worldwide
• Online / On-campus
• Duration : 1-2 years
• Type: Taught ( MSc ) – Research ( MRes )

26. • Egyptian Fellowship in HI:
Duration: 3 years
Attendance: 2 days / week
Institution: multiple institutions including
HITSTC - NTI

27. • CDC : Public Health Informatics Fellowship
Program (PHIFP)
https://www.cdc.gov/phifp/index.html
• AMIA-accredited fellowships:
https://www.amia.org/membership/academic-
forum/clinical-informatics-fellowships

28. • https://www.amia.org/education
• https://healthinformaticsforum.com/health-
informatics-degrees-and-certificates
• https://www.findamasters.com/masters-
degrees/?Keywords=health+informatics
• https://www.mastersportal.com/search/#q=di
-283|lv-master
• http://www.ahima.org/education/onlineed/Pr
ograms

29. • Egyptian Health Informatics Community
http://hitstc.mohp.gov.eg/mod/forum/view.php?f=342

30. • IMIA ( International Medical Informatics
Association ) – https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/
• AMIA (American Medical Informatics
Association) – www.amia.org
• Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) www.himss.org
• American Health Information Management
Association (AHIMA) – www.ahima.org

31. • Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
(AMDIS) – www.amdis.org
• Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) – www.allianceni.org
• Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) – www.phii.org
• International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) –
www.iscb.org
• Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) –
www.siim.org
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) –
www.acm.org
• Medical Library Association (MLA) – www.mlanet.org

32. • HL7 : Health Level 7 www.hl7.org
• ANSI: American National Standards Institute
https://www.ansi.org/
• CCHIT: (Certification Commission for Health
Information Technology) - https://www.cchit.org/
• HMD :(Health and Medicine Division)
IOM (Institute Of Medicine) before March 15, 2016
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/About-HMD.aspx
• Others

33. • Journals of AMIA
 JAMIA – https://academic.oup.com/jamia
 JAMIA Open – https://academic.oup.com/jamiaopen
• Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM)
• International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI)
• Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
 JMIR Medical Informatics
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
• Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI)
• Journal of Digital Imaging (JDI)
• Biomed Central (BMC, www.biomedcentral.com)
 BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
 BMC Bioinformatics

34. • IMIA : Medinfo (biennial)
https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/
• HIMSS, national meeting and local chapters
https://www.himss.org/Events
• AHIMA: http://www.ahima.org/events
• AMIA meetings
https://www.amia.org/meetings-and-events
– Annual Symposium
– Informatics Summit
– Clinical Informatics Conference
– Informatics Educators Forum

36. HIMSS
1- CPHIMS (Certified Professional in Healthcare
Information and Management Systems)
2- CAHIMS (Certified Associate in Healthcare
Information and Management Systems)
https://www.himss.org/health-it-certification

37. AHIMA
1. Certified Professional in Health Informatics (CPHI™)
2. Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA®)
3. Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT®)
4. Certified Coding Associate (CCA®)
5. Certified Coding Specialist (CCS®)
6. Certified Coding Specialist- Physician-based(CCS-P®)
7. Certified Documentation Improvement Partitionner (CDIP®)
8. Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA®)
9. Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS®)
10. Certified Healthcare Technology Specialist (CHTS®)
http://www.ahima.org/certification

38. • ABC of Health Informatics
- Frank Sullivan (Author), Jeremy Wyatt (Author)
• Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
(Health Informatics)
- Edward H. Shortliffe (Editor), James J. Cimino (Editor)
• Electronic Health Records
- Jerome H. Carter
• Electronic Health Record: Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and
Infrastructures
- Pradeep K. Sinha, Gaur Sunder, Prashant Bendale, Manisha Mantri, Atreya Dande
• From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: The Principles and Practice of Health
Informatics
- Paul Taylor
• Guide to Health Informatics
- Enrico Coiera
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39.  What is Health Informatics?
 HI Goals
 HI stakeholders
 HI subfields / subspecialties
 Healthcare trends & HI
 HI professional environments
 HI education / training opportunities & degrees
 HI organizations / journals / meetings / events
 HI professional certificates
 HI books