module 1 lecture 1 what is informatics
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Fourth Year Course in Medical Informatics
Dr Peter Cantillon
Mr. Ben Kanagaratnum
What is Medical Informatics?
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?
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Medical Informatics is “the study of howmedical knowledge is created, shaped, shared
and applied.” Enrico Coiera 1997
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Medical Informatics?
Information Science
Information Technology
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Information Science
Sources
Types
Flow
Value
Classification
Processing
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Information Science
Strategic learning
Perception
Memory and recall
Application in context
Interpretation
Processing information
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Information technology
•Storing
•Processing
• Analysing
•Transmitting
•Displaying
Information
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Informatics
Information Science Information Technology
Health Care
Incidental Medical
Management Clinical
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?
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•Managing information
•Greater speed and efficiency
•Facilitating evidence based practice•Improving communication
•Shared environment with patients
•Momentum toward IT solutions
Why bother?
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Why bother with medical informatics?????
Information explosion
Drowning in an ocean facts
Overloaded curriculum Running to stand still
Empowered patients
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Medical uncertainty
Appendicitis
•Pain site, character, severity
• Associated symptoms•Physical signs
•Low grade fever
Is medicine a science?
Is there uncertainty in medicine?
If so why is there uncertainty in medicine?
If so where does it occur in medical practice?
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Medical uncertainty
40% removed at the appropriate time
30% perforated at the time of operation
30% “lily -white”
Making decisions within an uncertain context
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Communicating information
The true meaning of any utterance is that which isconstrued.....
•Doctor to doctor communication
•Doctor to nurse communication
•Doctor to patient communication•Coding/defining medical phenomena
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Is the saying “ doctors differ and patients die” true ??
•Inadequate communication
•Different information gathering skills
• Attention to detail
•Different interpretation skills
•In-built speciality biases
•Patient factors
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?
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Electronic patient record
Research and audit
Evidence based medicine
Communication
Diary and personal management
How is used?
Decision support systems
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Internet diagram
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l k
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Virtual Private Networks
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) run over the Internet and
transparently encrypt the links between sites. Dr. B. O Mahoney
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?
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How doctors make decisions
How medical “truth” is derived
Ensuring basic IT skills
Introduction to EBM
Review of relevant statistical knowledge
Medical uses of the internet and on-line databases
Electronic patient records
What this course is about?
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?
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Assessment
•Mini thesis (September-January)
•OSCE ! (February 2002)
•MCQ (February 2002)
The Berman Prize is worth the effort
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Medical Informatics?
•What is Medical Informatics?
•Why bother with it?
•How is it used?•What will this course be about?
•How will I be assessed?
•How will this course benefit me?