This document provides an overview of medical informatics as an evolving field. It discusses the history and various definitions of medical informatics. Medical informatics is defined as the systematic study that deals with acquiring, storing, retrieving, and processing medical, biological and associated data for problem solving and decision making in clinical care, health administration, research, and patient/provider education. The document also outlines key areas within medical informatics like computerized medical records, medical software, security, policy making, and biomedical computing hardware and software.

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

4. Define Medical Informatics
No clear cut definition
Different schools of thought

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

9. Computerized Medical
Records
Medical Software
Security
Policy
Making
Veterinary
Informatics
Medical
Informatics
Physician Order Entry
Systems
Medical Software
Engineering
Computer-Aided
Instruction
Telemedicine
Nursing
Informatics
Medical Expert
Systems

10. Biomedical
Computing:
Hardware and
Software

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