Chapter 13 – Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
Watch Presentations and/or Use Google search to answer the following questions:
What is Health Informatics?
Health informatics (HI) (also called medical informatics)
focuses on information technology to positively impact the patient - physician relationship through effective collection, safeguarding, and understanding of health data
.
Why is Health Informatics important?
Health Informatics is important because it
improves patient experience by organizing, storing, and managing health data through the use of electronic health records (EHR)
.
What does E patient mean?
Individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care
decisions.
Go to website to answer questions last 2 questions: Posted in Blackboard
https://hihof.com/inductees/e-patient-dave-debronkart/
Who was e-Patient Dave?
“e-Patient Dave” is the best-known proponent of the e-patient movement: “empowered, engaged,
equipped and enabled.” A survivor of Stage IV kidney cancer in 2007, he was a leader of online discussion forums as far back as 1989 on CompuServe, where he managed active groups in desktop publishing and attention deficit.
What are the Es of the e-Patient movement?
equipped, empowered, enabled, and engaged.
