Management-Focused Health Informatics Research and Education at the University of Manchester

Abstract

Abstract:The Health Services Management Unit was established in 1956 and the Centre for Health Informatics in 1988 as one of eight new centres of research and professional practice. New programmes of informatics education have been created to integrate many of the areas of social and management sciences with clinical work. The model, of a multi-disciplinary higher education department based at a University with very substantial departments of Bio-Medicine and Computation, enables the Centre to reflect an alternative paradigm of health informatics. Informatics practitioners from many disciplines are taught a combination of knowledge and skills through a range of educational methods. A classification scheme for educational work is offered.

Health informatics and evidence-based medicine - more than a marriage of convenience?

“…Information processing and communication are centrally involved in virtually all healthcare activities, from obtaining and recording information about patients, communicating with healthcare professionals and accessing medical literature, to selecting diagnostic procedures, interpreting laboratory results and collecting clinical research data.Health informatics may be defined as the discipline that integrates biomedical sciences, computer sciences and healthcare policy, management and organization [2]. It embraces a number of different fields and activities including patient care, research, statistics, education, management and others that nominally fall within the framework of activities for providing better healthcare.…”

“…Health informatics may be defined as the discipline that integrates biomedical sciences, computer sciences and healthcare policy, management and organization [2]. It embraces a number of different fields and activities including patient care, research, statistics, education, management and others that nominally fall within the framework of activities for providing better healthcare.…”

Information Systems and Healthcare XIX: Developing an Integrative Health Informatics Graduate Curriculum

“…For example, Imhoff et al [2001, p. 179] define health informatics as the "development and assessment of methods and systems for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of patient data with the help of knowledge from scientific research." Peel [1994] defines health informatics more broadly, as the discipline that integrates biomedical sciences, computer sciences, healthcare policy, management, and organization. In this way, providing better healthcare has moved into proactive areas such as education, statistics, research, and cost management.…”

The Road to Professionalism in Medical Informatics: A Proposal for Debate

“…Medical Informatics, by its nature, encompasses many subfields, e. g., medical computing, medical decision making, medical education, etc. [2]. There are working groups affiliated with various associations (e. g., the working groups of IMIA, for example IMIA WG 4: Data Protection in Health Information Systems).…”

“…lWe use the term Medical Informatics because of its familiarity. However, our definition is close to that described in [2] in which the term "Healthcare Informatics" is substituted, meaning the discipline which integrates biomedical sciences, computer sciences and healthcare policy and management and organisation.…”