Health informatics: Introduction, History and general presentation
1. HCI 111
By Dr. Khaled Ouanes Ph.D.
E-mail: k.ouanes@seu.edu.sa
Twitter: @khaled_ouanes
2. BioMedical informatics:
An Evolving Field
1950s Intuitively: “medical applications of computer
science”
Medical computer science
Medical information science
Biomedical computing
Medical informatics
Health or healthcare informatics
Clinical informatics
3. History
1949 Gustav Wager
1950 United States National Bureau of Standards
mid 50’s MYCIN
1965 Medline
1968 Homer Warner founded the department of medical
informatics
1970 IMIA, MUMPS language and OS
5. Define Medical Informatics
Dr David Zitner
Four aspects of medical informatics:
Clinical care
Health service administration
Research
Patient and provider education
6. Define Medical Informatics
Systematic study
Deals with all forms of “data”
Biological data
Medical data
Associated data
Problem solving
Decision making
7. Define Medical Informatics
Medical informatics is a scientific/systematic
field of study that deals with the acquiring,
storage,
retrieval, and processing of medical, biological
and associated data, information and
knowledge for the purpose of problem solving
and decision making
8. Data, Information, Knowledge
Data are the raw facts obtained
Information is outcome of analyzing data
Knowledge is obtained from analyzing information