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Shortliffe EH. Biomedical informatics in the education of physicians. JAMA.
2010 Sep 15;304(11):1227-8.
“Information” in Medicine
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• The interdisciplinary field that studies and
pursues the effective uses of biomedical
data, information, and knowledge for
scientific inquiry, problem solving, and
decision making, motivated by efforts to
improve human health.
American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/about-amia/science-informatics
Biomedical Informatics
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Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Imaging
Informatics
Clinical
Informatics
Bioinformatics
Public Health
Informatics
Molecular and
Cellular
Processes
Tissues and
Organs
Individuals
(Patients)
Populations
And Society
Health Informatics
Adapted from American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/about-amia/science-informatics
Health Informatics
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To treat & to
care for their
patients to their
best abilities,
given limited
time &
resources
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newborn_Examination_1967.jpg (Nevit Dilmen)
What Clinicians Want?
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A safe, effective care
that focus on us, the
patients, and our needs
What Patients Want?
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• Safety
• Timeliness
• Effectiveness
• Patient-Centeredness
• Efficiency
• Equity
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality
chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy
Press; 2001.
“Quality” of Care
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Hospital A Hospital B
Clinic C
Government
Lab Patient at Home
Health Information Exchange
• Provider information access leads to safe, timely, effective & efficient care
• Patient information access leads to patient-centered, engaged & equitable care
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• Health informatics focus on information
toward health
• Health IT is at the core of high-quality care
• Opportunities are emerging for health IT
• Ramathibodi has a long history of internal
health IT development with efforts to improve
quality & internal operations
• Leveraging health IT for equity, access &
patient-centeredness should be our next
goals when other quality goals are achieved
Summary