“Patient informatics”

Patient Centered Healthcare Informatics

 Abstract—The healthcare system is undergoing a transformation from reactive care to proactive and preventive care. Patients or health consumers are actively acquiring knowledge to manage their health and seeking supports from their peers in addition to receiving healthcare support from healthcare professionals. 74% of American adults use the internet, of which 80% have looked online for healt...

Patient safety informatics.

Informatics Methods to Enable Patient-centered Radiology1

Informatics methods and systems in support of clinical care are well established in the health care enterprise. The new paradigm of patient-centered radiology creates new requirements and challenges that can be enabled by informatics. In particular, computer support can help referring physicians tailor their imaging requests to those procedures that would be most helpful for their patients’clin...

Viewpoint Paper: The Informatics Opportunities at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Clinical Informatics

Health care providers have a basic responsibility to protect patients from accidental harm. At the institutional level, creating safe health care organizations necessitates a systematic approach. Effective use of informatics to enhance safety requires the establishment and use of standards for concept definitions and for data exchange, development of acceptable models for knowledge representati...

n Informatics Challenges for the Impending Patient Information Explosion

j J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12:614–617. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1873. The next ten years have great potential to be a golden age for health informatics. A confluence of forces including improved technology, government support, and physician and patient receptivity to the benefits of information technology are likely to lead to increased use of health information technology. The goal of all clinici...