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HEALTH & MEDICAL INFORMATICS EDUCATION

CANADA

          -   Education Program for Health Informatics Professionals

          -   Faculty Review, December 1997

          -   Graduate Specialization in Computer Science Health Informatics

US

             -  School of Medicine - Health Management and Informatics

Articles and guidelines for Health Information education

                      Tom Rosenal, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

                      William Olmstadt

ASSOCIATIONS and INSTITUTES

CANADA

        Health Canada Online

        Canada Health Infoway

        Canadian Health Infostructure (CHI)

        CIHI - Canadian Institute for Health Information

        CIHR - Canadian Institutes of Health Research

        COACH - Canada's Health Informatics Association

        HEALNet · RELAIS - Putting Health Research to Work

        The Canadian Health Network

        ICES - Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

        JohnP. Robarts Institute

INTERNATIONAL

         Health Informatics World Wide

        WHO - World Health Organization

        IMIA    - International Medical Informatics Association

        EFMI   - European Federation for Medical Informatics

        AMIA    -  American Medical Informatics Association

        AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association

        HIMSS  - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

        BMIS   - British Medical Informatics Society

        BCS HI   - British Computer Society - Health Informatics

        NHS Information Authority

         CHIME - Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education

Interdisciplinary Dialogue Center - Romania  

BOOKS & JOURNALS

               E.Hovenga, M.Kidd, B.Cesnik, Australia

               R. Jenders, R. Sideli, G. Hripcsak, Columbia University, NY

                Michael Hogarth  

                Enrico Coeira  Full text of the preface and and introduction to medical informatics plus other helpful links

LIBRARIES

OTHER RESOURCES

General Information

Definitions:

    Health Informatics definition from HI Society of Australia

   Health Informatics definition from U of Salford

    Health Informatics definition University of Missouri

    Health Informatics South Africa report

    What is Health Informatics? - powerpoint presentation

    Health Informatics comments

    What is e-health?

    E-health
    Medical Informatics

    Medical Informatics Ted Shortliffe

    Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics

    Definition from British Medical Informatics Society
    Medical Informatics: An Introduction University of California, Davis CA
    Medical Informatics FAQ

    Medical Informatics Applications
    About MEDLINE
    Careers in Informatics

   Health Informatics Glosary

    Information and Communications Technologies in Health Thesaurus
   Nursing Informatics - definitions

    Health Information Management professional definition

    Knowledge management and HI - comments

    What is public health informatics?

    What is Structural Informatics?

    What is Biomedical Informatics?

    What is health communication?

    Health Informatics in Rural Health: A Priority for the 21st Century

    Definitions: Ethics and Medical Informatics - Oregon Health Sciences

    Health Promotion Informatics

    Telematics - Romania

    Safety and security

Links

    Healthweb - Health Information Links

    Yahoo! Informatics

    UC Davis Medical Informatics Links
    UofAlberta Internet for Health Professional Links

    Web Medicine's Spotlight on Medical Informatics

    Medical Matrix: Informatics  

    Medial Informatics resources

Telemedicine / Telehealth / Health Networks

   European Health Telematics Observatory

   HSLS Medical Informatics and Telemedicine links

   Telehealth Links

   Telehealth web resources

Medical Education

    Hotlinks: Healthy People 2000 on the World Wide Web Hotlinks to health

    How to Recognize a Melanoma An online tutorial

Consumer Health Informatics

    Consumer and Patient Health Information Section

Medical Standards

    Health Informatics Standards

    Medical Informatics Standards
    IMIA WG 6: History
    SNOMED Inernational A standardized system of medical nomenclature
    Unified Medical Language System The NLM's metathesaurus
    HL-7 Standards Helping hospitals communicate

   ICD9 - CM

    LOINC and RELMA
    Vocabulary, Coding and Concept Representation  

Electronic Patient Record

    Medical Records Institute
    The Computer-based Patient Record, Managed Care and Clinical Outcomes

   Computer-based Patient Record Institute

Digital Medical Imaging
    Links About Digital Medical Imaging
    Digital Imaging in Pathology
    Center for Biomedical Imaging - University of Medicine and Dentistry

Medical Decision Support
    DxExplain  

Bioinformatics
   DEAMBULUM   -  Biology and Bioinformatics Servers in Europe
    Genome Web     - Genome sites on the World Wide Web

   Informatics and the Human Genome Project
    Medical Research Council Bioinformatics

    NIH Computational Molecular Biology

Last updated: May 15, 2002