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Operationalizing the Science: Integrating Clinical Informatics into the Daily Operations of the Medical Center

Operationalizing the Science: Integrating Clinical Informatics into the Daily Operations of the Medical Center
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Author(s): Joseph L. Kannry (Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 21
Source title: Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Andre W. Kushniruk (University of Victoria, Canada)and Elizabeth M. Borycki (University of Victoria, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-792-8.ch013

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Abstract

Healthcare IT (HIT) has failed to live up to its promise in the United States. HIT solutions and decisions need to be evidence based and standardized. Interventional informatics is ideally positioned to provide evidence based and standardized solutions in the enterprise (aka, the medical center) which includes all or some combination of hospital(s), hospital based-practices, enterprise owned offsite medical practices, faculty practice and a medical school. For purposes of this chapter, interventional informatics is defined as applied medical or clinical informatics with an emphasis on an active interventional role in the enterprise. A department of interventional informatics, which integrates the science of informatics into daily operations, should become a standard part of any 21st century medical center in the United States. The objectives of this chapter are to: review and summarize the promise and challenge of IT in healthcare; define healthcare IT; review the legacy of IT in healthcare; compare and contrast IT in healthcare with that of other industries; become familiar with evidence based IT: Medical informatics; differentiate medical informatics from IT in healthcare; distinguish medical, clinical, and interventional informatics; justify the need for operational departments of interventional informatics.

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