The Informatics Opportunities at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Clinical Informatics

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...

Patient safety informatics.

A Comparative Study of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Curriculum in Selected Universities of the World

Introduction: The American Medical Association has introduced the newest medical subspecialty field known as "Clinical Informatics" since 2011. In order to present similar courses in Iran, it is necessary to design and evaluate a training program. The comparison of educational systems improves the content and quality of design of an educational program. Therefore, the objective of this study wa...

A Comparative Study of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Curriculum in Selected Universities of the World

Introduction: The American Medical Association has introduced the newest medical subspecialty field known as "Clinical Informatics" since 2011. In order to present similar courses in Iran, it is necessary to design and evaluate a training program. The comparison of educational systems improves the content and quality of design of an educational program. Therefore, the objective of this study wa...

Medical Imaging Informatics and Medical Informatics: opportunities and constraints. Findings from the IMIA yearbook of Medical Informatics 2002.

OBJECTIVES The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of recent excellent papers on medical informatics research (http://www.yearbook.uni-hd.de). The 2002 Yearbook of Medical Informatics took as its theme the topic of Medical Imaging Informatics. In this paper, we will summarize the contributions...