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Health informatics is taught at five New Zealand universities. The most mature and established programme has been offered for over a decade at Otago. [104] Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ), is the national organization that advocates for health informatics.
Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]
The main goals of AMIA are to move from 'bench to bedside', help improve the impact of health innovations and advance the public health informatics field. They hold annual conferences, online classes and webinars, which are free to their members. There is also a career center specific for the biomedical and health informatics community. [22]
Graduate Health Care Informatics Certificate: A five-month, online certificate that helps you implement IT systems with greater efficiency in a healthcare environment.
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8]
A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology that provides clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information to help health and health care. CDSS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow.
To provide the safe and effective delivery of medical care, virtually all clinical staff use a number of front-line health informatics tools in their day-to-day operations. The need for standardization and refined development of these tools is underscored by the HITECH Act and other efforts to develop electronic medical records .
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