HLTH 330 - Unit 1: Introduction to Health Informatics with correct answers

HLTH 330 - Unit 1: Introduction to Health InformaticsIs there an agreed upon definition of health informatics? - correct answer No, however they all involve handling data and knowledge. -ex: patient records, clinical frailty scale, electronic health records, WebMD does health informatics only involve computer/electronics? - correct answer No Wikipedia definition of Health Informatics - correct answer Deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine what are the 3 components of HI? - correct answer 1) health care 2) computer science 3) information science Which component of HI is least talked about? - correct answer information science Science of information - correct answer Studies the structures, algorithms, behaviour, interactions of natural and artificial systems which store, process, access, and communicate information what does informatics involve? - correct answer 1) Practice of information processing: conceptual level, how to organize and retrieve quickly 2) Engineering of information systems: database systems, structures how you organize the data data - correct answer Facts, observations, measurements. ex: BP, stored in raw format contained in a database. Terminology is required to describe a data model ex: diastolic BP unit of measurement (mercury, mmHg)