What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?

September, 2011

William Hersh, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Email: hersh@ohsu.edu Web: www.billhersh.info Blog: informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/billhersh

• Definition and overview
  
• Electronic and personal health records (EHR, PHR)
  
• Health information exchange
• EHR barriers and adoption
• Meaningful use, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
  
• Information retrieval
• Bioinformatics
• Education and training

• Shortliffe, E. and Cimino, J., eds. (2006). Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Third Edition). New York, NY. Springer-Verlag. (Fourth edition forthcoming in 2012)
• Weaver, C., Delaney, C., et al., eds. (2010). Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - An International Look at Practice, Education, and EHR Trends, Second Edition. Chicago, IL. Healthcare Information Management Systems Society.
  
• Hersh, W. (2009). Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Third Edition). New York. Springer-Verlag.
• Straus, S., Richardson, W., et al. (2005). Evidence Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, Third Edition. New York, NY. Churchill Livingstone.
  
• Pevsner, J. (2009). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. Hoboken, NJ. Wiley-Blackwell.
  
• O'Carroll, P., Yasnoff, W., et al., eds. (2002). Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. New York. Springer-Verlag.

• Hersh, W. (2009). A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology. BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making, 9:24.
• Hersh, W. (2008). Health and Biomedical Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges for a Twenty-First Century Profession and its Education, 138-145, in Geissbuhler, A. and Kulikowski, C., eds., IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2008. Stuttgart, Germany.

• American Medical Informatics Association - www.amia.org
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT - healthit.hhs.gov
  
• National Library of Medicine - www.nlm.nih.gov
• Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research - www.ahrq.gov
  
• International Medical Informatics Association - www.imia.org
• Healthcare Information Management Systems Society - www.himss.org
• Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems - www.amdis.org
• American Health Information Management Association - www.ahima.org
• Medical Library Association - www.mlanet.org

• A list of educational programs at http://www.amia.org/education/programs-and-courses
• A list of training programs funded by the National Library of Medicine is at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html
• Information about our program at Oregon Health & Science University at http://www.ohsu.edu/informatics
  
• My blog on the topic, the Informatics Professor, at informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com