HLTH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Informatics, Biomedicine, Blood Pressure
5 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1: what is health informatics (hi): the use of technology is not a requirement (however current fuss about hi is all due to technology). Paper based files can still be considered apart of health informatics (although not state of the art). Wikipedia definition: (cid:498)health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods biomedicine. (cid:499) required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and. Information science is least talked about among these three: a lot of emphasis on computer science right now (not like in the past). Another perspective: health informatics = health + informatics. What is informatics: science of information, studies the structure, algorithms, behaviour, and interactions of natural and artificial systems, which store, process, access, and communicate information. Facts or observations or measurements: (e. g. , blood pressure measurements). Contained in a database: terminology is required to describe a data model, knowledge. Defined relationships between data concepts: (eg.
