HLST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Health Informatics, Medline, Electrocardiography

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Professor Kenneth Lam

Document Summary

Lecture 12: emerging issues: health information and informatics. What is informatics: the eld concerned with cognitive information processing and communication tasks of practice, education and research including the information science and technologies to support this tasks . -greens & shortli e: scienti c eld with the goal of improving ways of doing things, located eld informatics is done in a context of a speci c eld. Data, information, and knowledge required by healthcare delivery: science of the type of care, process and system for delivery of care, provider, outcomes, patient and/or client. Information technology in healthcare i: formal or traditional settings, hospitals, medical o ces, clinics, other health institutions. Information technology in healthcare ii: informal or outpatient settings, homes, personal o ces, worksites, libraries. Paradigm shift: the brief history of health informatics ii: transitional applications (1970 to 1980"s, advances in communications and computer access (databases)