Health Informatics Resources

The following resources have been either recommended or authored by Fellows and Members of ACHI.

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Type: Websites

Evidence-Based Practice Topic: Clinical Disciplines	Medical Specialisations Topic: Clinical Disciplines
Nursing Topic: Clinical Disciplines	Supply Chain Management Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
ZDNet Australia: e-Health Topic: Electronic Health Records, e-Health & Telehealth, Technology	Telehealth Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
e-Health Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	General information: e-health, i-health and telehealth Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
e-Commerce in the Health Industry Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	e-Health: Victorian Government Resource Centre Topic: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Governance & Administration, e-Health & Telehealth
Provider Networks Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	Functional Requirements Topic: Electronic Health Records
ZDNet Australia: e-Health Topic: Electronic Health Records, e-Health & Telehealth, Technology	Unique Identifiers Topic: Electronic Health Records
Making Medical Records Accessible Topic: Electronic Health Records	Architectures and Archetypes Topic: Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health Record: Wikipedia Article Topic: Electronic Health Records	Documentation and Record Management Topic: Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health/Patient Records Topic: Electronic Health Records	openEHR Topic: Electronic Health Records, Health Information and Knowledge Management
Government Initiatives Topic: Electronic Health Records	e-Health: Victorian Government Resource Centre Topic: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Governance & Administration, e-Health & Telehealth
Semantic Interoperability Topic: Electronic Health Records	Government Infrastructures and Networks Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
ICT Strategy Development and Implementation Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Federal and State Government Departments and Agencies Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Operations and Resource Management Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Health Service Management Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Health Planning and Policies Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Government ICT Initiatives Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
e-Health: Victorian Government Resource Centre Topic: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Governance & Administration, e-Health & Telehealth	Data Policies, Agreements and Economics Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Bioinformatics Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics Organisations Topic: Health Informatics
HITsphere: Healthcare IT Blogs Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics: Wikipedia Article Topic: Health Informatics
Medical and Dental Informatics Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics Databases: University of Sydney Library Topic: Health Informatics
Informatics for Clinical Support Services Topic: Health Informatics	e-Health: Victorian Government Resource Centre Topic: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Governance & Administration, e-Health & Telehealth
Nursing Informatics Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics Global Activity Topic: Health Informatics
Security Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Messaging Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards
Professional Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Electronic Health Record Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards
Health Terminology Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Standards Australia e-health Portal Topic: Health Informatics Standards
Standards Development and Projects Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Off-the-Shelf Software Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management
Practice Evaluation Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management	Evidence-Based Practice Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management
openEHR Topic: Electronic Health Records, Health Information and Knowledge Management	Knowledge Management: General Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management
Health Information Models Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Concepts, Coding and Classification Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
National and International Reporting Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Health Language Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
General Classification Schemes Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Quality and Integrity of Data Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Minimum Data Sets Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Data Acquisition, Capture and Entry Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
ZDNet Australia: e-Health Topic: Electronic Health Records, e-Health & Telehealth, Technology	Health Information Models Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Bioinformatics Topic: Health Informatics	Government Infrastructures and Networks Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Health Informatics Organisations Topic: Health Informatics	Functional Requirements Topic: Electronic Health Records
Security Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Supply Chain Management Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
Concepts, Coding and Classification Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	National and International Reporting Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
ICT Strategy Development and Implementation Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	HITsphere: Healthcare IT Blogs Topic: Health Informatics
Unique Identifiers Topic: Electronic Health Records	ZDNet Australia: e-Health Topic: Electronic Health Records, e-Health & Telehealth, Technology
Messaging Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Telehealth Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
e-Health Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	Health Language Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Professional Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Federal and State Government Departments and Agencies Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Health Informatics: Wikipedia Article Topic: Health Informatics	Evidence-Based Practice Topic: Clinical Disciplines
Electronic Health Record Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Making Medical Records Accessible Topic: Electronic Health Records
Operations and Resource Management Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	General Classification Schemes Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Architectures and Archetypes Topic: Electronic Health Records	Off-the-Shelf Software Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management
Electronic Health Record: Wikipedia Article Topic: Electronic Health Records	Medical Specialisations Topic: Clinical Disciplines
Health Terminology Standards Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Health Service Management Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration
Medical and Dental Informatics Topic: Health Informatics	Documentation and Record Management Topic: Electronic Health Records
Practice Evaluation Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management	Nursing Topic: Clinical Disciplines
Standards Australia e-health Portal Topic: Health Informatics Standards	Health Informatics Databases: University of Sydney Library Topic: Health Informatics
Health Planning and Policies Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Informatics for Clinical Support Services Topic: Health Informatics
Electronic Health/Patient Records Topic: Electronic Health Records	Evidence-Based Practice Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management
General information: e-health, i-health and telehealth Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	Quality and Integrity of Data Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Nursing Informatics Topic: Health Informatics	openEHR Topic: Electronic Health Records, Health Information and Knowledge Management
Government ICT Initiatives Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Government Initiatives Topic: Electronic Health Records
Standards Development and Projects Topic: Health Informatics Standards	e-Commerce in the Health Industry Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
Minimum Data Sets Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Data Acquisition, Capture and Entry Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Data Policies, Agreements and Economics Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Health Informatics Global Activity Topic: Health Informatics
Semantic Interoperability Topic: Electronic Health Records	e-Health: Victorian Government Resource Centre Topic: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Governance & Administration, e-Health & Telehealth
Knowledge Management: General Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management	Provider Networks Topic: e-Health & Telehealth

Type: Publications

Innovative Approaches and Processes for Capturing Expert Aged Care Knowledge for Multiple Purposes Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Clinical Disciplines	Letter in response to "Electronic Personal Health Records: Should Doctors Worry?" Topic: Electronic Health Records
The AMPATH medical record system: creating, implementing, and sustaining an electronic medical record system to support HIV/AIDS Topic: Electronic Health Records	Managing archetypes for sustainable and semantically interoperable electronic health records Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages, Electronic Health Records
IMIA Yearbook of Health Informatics 2008 Topic: Health Informatics	ICT standards in the health sector: current situation and prospects Topic: Health Informatics Standards
Internet-Based Learning in the Health Professions: A Meta-analysis Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management	Innovative Approaches and Processes for Capturing Expert Aged Care Knowledge for Multiple Purposes Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Clinical Disciplines
Human Computer Interaction between clinicians and clinical terminologies: Why clinical terminologies need help! Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Importance of Achieving Semantic Interoperability for National Health Information Systems Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Managing archetypes for sustainable and semantically interoperable electronic health records Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages, Electronic Health Records	Expressing Clinical Data Sets with openEHR Archetypes: A Solid Basis for Ubiquitous Computing Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
Internet-Based Learning in the Health Professions: A Meta-analysis Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management	Letter in response to "Electronic Personal Health Records: Should Doctors Worry?" Topic: Electronic Health Records
Human Computer Interaction between clinicians and clinical terminologies: Why clinical terminologies need help! Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages	Importance of Achieving Semantic Interoperability for National Health Information Systems Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages
A Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support Topic: health Informatics	The AMPATH medical record system: creating, implementing, and sustaining an electronic medical record system to support HIV/AIDS Topic: Electronic Health Records
Managing archetypes for sustainable and semantically interoperable electronic health records Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages, Electronic Health Records	Innovative Approaches and Processes for Capturing Expert Aged Care Knowledge for Multiple Purposes Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Clinical Disciplines
IMIA Yearbook of Health Informatics 2008 Topic: Health Informatics	ICT standards in the health sector: current situation and prospects Topic: Health Informatics Standards
Building a Sustainable Health System Topic: health Informatics	Expressing Clinical Data Sets with openEHR Archetypes: A Solid Basis for Ubiquitous Computing Topic: Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages

Type: Textbooks

Casemix, Nursing Process and Information Systems (Book Chapter) Topic: Clinical Disciplines, Human & Organisational Issues	Guide to Health Informatics 2nd Edition Topic: Health Informatics
Health Informatics: An Overview (2nd Edition) Topic: Health Informatics	Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine Topic: Health Informatics
Casemix, Nursing Process and Information Systems (Book Chapter) Topic: Clinical Disciplines, Human & Organisational Issues	Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine Topic: Health Informatics
Casemix, Nursing Process and Information Systems (Book Chapter) Topic: Clinical Disciplines, Human & Organisational Issues	Guide to Health Informatics 2nd Edition Topic: Health Informatics
Health Informatics: An Overview (2nd Edition) Topic: Health Informatics

Type: Journals

eHealth International Topic: Health Informatics, e-Health & Telehealth	Journal of Medical Internet Research Topic: e-Health & Telehealth
Three "Inconvenient Truths" about Health Care (V. Fuchs) and Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs (K.Davis) Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration	Pulse+IT Magazine Topic: Health Informatics
Health Informatics Journal Topic: Health Informatics	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Topic: Health Informatics
eHealth International Topic: Health Informatics, e-Health & Telehealth	eHealth International Topic: Health Informatics, e-Health & Telehealth
Journal of Medical Internet Research Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	Pulse+IT Magazine Topic: Health Informatics
Health Informatics Journal Topic: Health Informatics	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Topic: Health Informatics
Three "Inconvenient Truths" about Health Care (V. Fuchs) and Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs (K.Davis) Topic: Health Care Governance & Administration

Type: Presentations

eHealth Success Factors Topic: e-Health & Telehealth	OpenMRS Topic: Electronic Health Records
Daniel Kayiwa (Uganda) and OpenMRS Topic: Electronic Health Records	Weekly multidisciplinary case review (WMCR) based on a web page clinical summary (WPCS) as a tool to improve health team communication Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Human & Organisational Issues
Weekly multidisciplinary case review (WMCR) based on a web page clinical summary (WPCS) as a tool to improve health team communication Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Human & Organisational Issues	Weekly multidisciplinary case review (WMCR) based on a web page clinical summary (WPCS) as a tool to improve health team communication Topic: Health Information and Knowledge Management, Human & Organisational Issues
OpenMRS Topic: Electronic Health Records	Daniel Kayiwa (Uganda) and OpenMRS Topic: Electronic Health Records
eHealth Success Factors Topic: e-Health & Telehealth

Type: Education Resources

Academic and Training Programs: International (AMIA) Topic: Health Informatics	Report on IMIA Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education Topic: Human & Organisational Issues
IMIA Educational Recommendations Revised Topic: Human & Organisational Issues	Health Informatics Educational Framework Topic: Health Informatics, Health Information and Knowledge Management
Academic and Training Programs: International (AMIA) Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics Educational Framework Topic: Health Informatics, Health Information and Knowledge Management
Health Informatics Educational Framework Topic: Health Informatics, Health Information and Knowledge Management	Report on IMIA Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education Topic: Human & Organisational Issues
IMIA Educational Recommendations Revised Topic: Human & Organisational Issues

Type: Websites, Education Resources

Health Informatics Worldwide Topic: Health Informatics	Health Informatics Worldwide Topic: Health Informatics
Health Informatics Worldwide Topic: Health Informatics

Type: FAQ

What types of career are available to health informatics professionals? Topic: health Informatics	How can electronic medical records and decision support improve clinical and economic outcomes? Topic: health Informatics
What evidence is there that information technology improves health outcomes? Topic: health Informatics	What education and training courses are available in health informatics? Topic: health Informatics

Type: Organisations

American Health Informatics Association Topic: Health Informatics	European Federation for Medical Informatics Topic: Health Informatics, Human & Organisational Issues
Coalition for eHealth Australia