Australasian College of Health Informatics

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Health Informatics: An Overview - 2010 and 1996 (free) Editions

Health Informatics: An Overview (2010)

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Health Informatics: An Overview (1996)

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

1. Health Informatics in Australia  [16Kb]
2. History of Health Informatics  [24Kb]
3. Health Care Services and Information Systems  [30Kb]
4. Health Information Science  [66Kb]

Basic Informatics Concepts

5. Standards in Health Informatics  [21Kb]
6. Basic Applications and Expectations  [46Kb]
7. Establishing User Requirements  [1,879Kb]
8. Privacy, Security and Confidentiality  [47Kb]
9. Database  [42Kb]
10. Data Communications  [698Kb]
11. Management Support Systems Principles and Concepts  [42Kb]

Health Information Clinical Practice

12. Electronic medical records  [57Kb]
13. Expert systems  [48Kb]
14. Decision Support in Clinical Practice  [47Kb]
15. Image Management and Communications Technology  [39Kb]
16. Telemedicine  [41Kb]
17. Physiological Monitoring  [1,490Kb]
18. Remote Access  [27Kb]
19. Computerised Education for Health Professionals  [481Kb]
20. Computerised Education for Consumers  [44Kb]
21. Health Consumer Issues  [40Kb]
22. Medico-legal Issues  [31Kb]

Informatics and Health Care Management

23. National Strategy For Information Management  [41Kb]
24. Preparing Staff for Information Technology  [35Kb]
25. Information Technology Management  [48Kb]
26. Health Informatics In General Practice  [42Kb]
27. Casemix and Information Systems  [92Kb]
28. Research in Healthcare [1.3Mb]

Health Research and Informatics

29. Information Technology in Research  [57Kb]
30. Research, Public Health And Policy Development  [47Kb]

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