C468 Study Guide_V3 Competency 1: Information Management

Informatics and Information Science  page 2 ("Informatics") in Chapter 1  page 8 ("Foundational Skills") in Chapter 1  pages 3–8 ("The Relevance for Informatics for Healthcare" to the end of "The Push for Safety and Quality") in Chapter 1 1. Informatics Define Informatics using the reading: - interdisciplinary field that combines and contributes to information science, decision science, management science, nursing science and computer science, and organizational theory. Give an example of how informatics is used in your own workplace or clinical setting: having and utilizing an EHR for all clients. What fields does health informatics include? All healthcare fields and all providers as well as patients can utilize health informatics in practice.