Welcome to the Health Informatics & Nursing Informatics Resources Centre
Introduction to Health Informatics
Welcome to ACHI's Health Informatics Resource Centre. This reference centre is a collection of links to Web pages related to the Health informatics discipline. The resources have been broadly categorised according to IMIA's recommendations on Education in Health and Medical Informatics.
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Flexible & Distance Learning
Informatics methods and tools to support education, including flexible and distance learning, use of relevant educational technologies, including the Internet and World Wide Web.
Health Informatics: An Overview(Kidd M, Hovenga E, Garde S, Hullin Lucay Cossio C, 2010)
from the "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" series - extensively revised and updated the book addresses contemporary issues and provides a valuable resource for healthcare professionals and students of health informatics.
Doctors, Patients and Computers, the New Consultation(Pearce C, 2009)
contends that the computer has become an active participant in the general practice consultation, evolving into a communication among the three players: patient, doctor and computer.
Infectious Disease Informatics(Sintchenko V, 2009)
- brings together a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of informatics applications aiming to improve the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases.
Health Informatics: A Socio-Technical Perspective(Whetton S, 2005)
- focuses on the interplay between the health care environment and the systems used to manage information. Numerous and varied case studies, 'issues' and 'critical thinking' boxes assist students to identify and critique different health information systems.
Sue Whetton is at the Department of Rural Health, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Global Health Informatics Education (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)(Hovenga E, Mantas J, 2004)
- healthcare professionals often lack knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of systematically processing data, information and knowledge and of the resulting impact on quality decision-making.
This book is especially helpful for educators in the field of health/medical informatics.
Guide to Health Informatics(Coiera E, 2003)
- an excellent academic review of all aspects of information technology that are applied to healthcare; not a book for techies. Coiera is Professor of Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
The CDA Book(Boone K, 2011)
- this new book by eminent CDA expert Keith Boone provides clear and easy-to-use implementation guidance with numerous examples. The reader will learn not only how to implement the CDA standard, but also to understand its idioms and to "speak" the CDA language.
Principles of Health Interoperability: HL7 and SNOMED(Benson, T, 2009)
- this new book on interoperability by Tim Benson (HL7 UK) contends that e-Health semantic interoperability depends on the combined use of the two leading standards HL7 and SNOMED CT.
Guide to Health Informatics(Coiera E, 2003)
- an excellent academic review of all aspects of information technology that are applied to healthcare; not a book for techies.
Coiera is Professor of Health Informatics at University of New South Wales, Australia.
Global Health Informatics Education (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)(Hovenga E, Mantas J, 2004)
- healthcare professionals often lack knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of
systematically processing data, information and knowledge and of the resulting impact on quality decision-making.
This book is especially helpful for educators in the field of health/medical informatics.
Health Informatics: A Socio-Technical Perspective(Whetton S, 2005)
- focuses on the interplay between the health care environment and the systems used to manage information. Numerous and varied case studies, 'issues' and 'critical thinking' boxes assist students to identify and critique different health information systems.
Sue Whetton is at the Department of Rural Health, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Handbook of Medical Informatics(van Bemmel J, Musen M A, 2002)
- the purpose of the Handbook is to provide systematic overview of medical and health informatics for health care professionals and for students in medicine and health care.
(Edited by M. Quigley, 2011)
- the "The Protocols of Privileged Information Handling in an eHealth Context: Australia" section in this reference source is authored by Juanita Fernando.
(Kabene S, 2010)
- the "Effectiveness of Health Informatics" chapter of this premier reference source is co-authored by Terry Hannan.
(Kidd M, Hovenga E, Garde S, Hullin Lucay Cossio C, 2010)
from the "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" series - extensively revised and updated the book addresses contemporary issues and provides a valuable resource for healthcare professionals and students of health informatics.
(Pearce C, 2009)
contends that the computer has become an active participant in the general practice consultation, evolving into a communication among the three players: patient, doctor and computer.
(Sintchenko V, 2009)
- brings together a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of informatics applications aiming to improve the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases.
(Whetton S, 2005)
- focuses on the interplay between the health care environment and the systems used to manage information. Numerous and varied case studies, 'issues' and 'critical thinking' boxes assist students to identify and critique different health information systems.
Sue Whetton is at the Department of Rural Health, University of Tasmania, Australia.
(Hovenga E, Mantas J, 2004)
- healthcare professionals often lack knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of systematically processing data, information and knowledge and of the resulting impact on quality decision-making.
This book is especially helpful for educators in the field of health/medical informatics.
(Coiera E, 2003)
- an excellent academic review of all aspects of information technology that are applied to healthcare; not a book for techies. Coiera is Professor of Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
(Boone K, 2011)
- this new book by eminent CDA expert Keith Boone provides clear and easy-to-use implementation guidance with numerous examples. The reader will learn not only how to implement the CDA standard, but also to understand its idioms and to "speak" the CDA language.
(Benson, T, 2009)
- this new book on interoperability by Tim Benson (HL7 UK) contends that e-Health semantic interoperability depends on the combined use of the two leading standards HL7 and SNOMED CT.
(Shortliffe E, Cimino J, 2006)
- an introduction to an important area in biomedical informatics with suggested additional reading and highlighted concepts. The book is intended to be used in formal courses by health professions students and by biomedical computing students.
(van Bemmel J, Musen M A, 2002)
- the purpose of the Handbook is to provide systematic overview of medical and health informatics for health care professionals and for students in medicine and health care.
(Tan J, 2005)
- is essential reading for those who are interested in learning about a vision for e-health, its foundational perspectives, applications, and strategies in this time of e-health paradigm shift.
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