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Health Informatics Topics

Health informatics resources on this site are contributed and recommended by Fellows and members of ACHI: health and information technology professionals with demonstrated expertise and experience in the field.

Each resource is classified according to its health informatics sub-topic. this classification scheme was initially used on the Health and Nursing Informatics Resource website, published by Central Queensland University.

Health Informatics

General health informatics information, health informatics organisations, general medical informatics/nursing informatics/bioinformatics
Health Information, Data, Coding and Languages

Classification schemes, language, concepts, coding, classification, data acquisition and entry, reporting, data sets, health information models, quality and integrity of data
Health Informatics Standards

Standards in terminology, electronic health records, security, professional practice, messaging.
Electronic Health Records

Medical record principles, functional requirements, architectures and archetypes, electronic patient records, government initiatives, unique identifiers
Health Information and Knowledge Management

Methods to manage existing and newly-acquired knowledge, evidence-based practice, evaulation of clinical practice
Health Care Governance & Administration

Commonwealth and State Government agencies, ICT strategy devlopment and initiation, health service management, business knowledge management, health planning and policies, data policies, agreements and economics
e-Health & Telehealth

e-Health vs i-Health vs Telehealth, e-commerce, telecommunications infrastructure, using the internet to delier health care or health information, provier networks, supply chain management
Clinical Disciplines

Medical specialties, nursing, evidence-based practice
Technology
Human & Organisational Issues