Medical informatics

If you have not yet heard of medical informatics then expect to do so repeatedly in the future. As medical knowledge continues to expand rapidly, as the demands for more efficient coordination of patient data become paramount, and as the pressures for improved practice and application of evidence based medicine increase, medical informatics will have increasing influence in our working lives as clinicians. Recent white papers have highlighted the need for improved organisation and communication of health information and have offered solutions.(1)(2) Medical informatics is at the centre of the overall objectives, linking such areas as knowledge management, guidance on best practice, education of professionals and the public, and the use of new communication and computer technologies. The growing emphasis on the development, collation, and delivery of information in health care means increasing opportunities for clinicians from all specialties to become involved. ### Role models for the budding informatician

# Electronic Health Records Systems # Health Professions # Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health # Medicine # Medical Coding and Health Information

Jeremy Sims (1998). "Medical informatics". BMJ. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7173.2