Description:
| Aims & Learning Objectives:
* Introduce the history and development of informatics as a specialty and its role and adoption in healthcare
* Distinguish between data, information and knowledge and to promote an understanding of their hierarchical interrelationship
* Set the scene for an electronic patient record that draws on all areas of healthcare informatics.
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
* Appraise the influences of history and policy on the current position of informatics as a specialty within healthcare
* Describe the data-knowledge hierarchy and explain its relevance to healthcare issues
* Analyse the concept of the electronic patient record as a linking structure between all areas of informatics.
Content: This unit will introduce the student to the concept and history of informatics and explore its place in society and healthcare. This will include the following topics:
* What is health informatics
* The national and global context for healthcare informatics
* The hierarchy of data, information, knowledge and its significance in healthcare
* The development of the EPR and its relationship to all other aspects of healthcare informatics.
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