1. Healthcare Informatics and Information Systems
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Healthcare Informatics and Information Systems

2. OBJECTIVES Define healthcare informatics
Describe automated healthcare delivery systems
Discuss types of healthcare data
Identify selected types and levels of computer-related personnel
Differentiate between computer literacy, information literacy, computer-assisted instructions and health care informatics

3. Defining Healthcare Informatics and Related Terms
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom

4. Automated Information Systems in Health Care
Automated Applications Used in Healthcare Delivery
Healthcare Information Systems
Clinical Information Systems
Administrative Information Systems
Personnel Systems
Consumer Information Systems
Setting-Specific Systems

5. Types of Automated Data Used in Healthcare Information Systems
Clinical or Client Data
Financial Data
Human Resources Data
Material Resources Data
Intellectual Data

6. Levels of Data Sharing Stand-alone systems Interfaced systems
Do not share data or information
Interfaced systems
Maintain their own database while sharing
Integrated systems
Share a common database

7. Levels of Data Sharing Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Integration of a specific institution service or function
Level 2
Sharing data for an individual healthcare institution
Level 3
Sharing of data across all institutions within the larger organization
Level 4
Sharing data outside the institutions

8. Healthcare Computing Personnel
Chief Information Officer or Director
Systems Analysis
Programmers
Systems or Network Administrators
Microcomputer Specialists
Computer Operators
Information Specialists