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ASPECTS OF THE FIELD


These include:
  • architectures for Electronic Medical Records and other health information systems used for billing, scheduling or research.

  • decision support systems in healthcare

  • messaging standards for the exchange of information between health care information systems (e.g. through the use of the HL7 data exchange standard) - these specifically define the ''means'' to exchange data, not the content

  • controlled medical vocabularies such as the Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) or Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) - used to allow a standard, accurate exchange of data content between systems and providers.

  • use of hand-held or portable devices to assist providers with data entry/retrieval or medical decision-making



HISTORY

Medical informatics began in the 1950s with the rise of useable computation devices, Computer s.

Early names for medical informatics included medical computing, medical computer science, computer medicine, medical electronic data processing, medical automatic data processing, medical information processing, medical information science, medical software engineering and medical computer technology.

The earliest use of computation for veterinary medicine was ...


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