This paper is for my Health Informatics class.
1. Introduction
Give an overview of your paper and what you plan accomplish by writing this paper.
2. History of Health Informatics
Give an overview of the history of informatics. Your report should state the facts concisely, describe the context and background. You should provide detailed information including the below topics:
• Early medical records systems
• Very early decision support
Describe the process of how they were carried out, the outcomes, why they were successful, or not successful, and the “lessons learned”. Describe what makes these early projects so important?
3. Current issues
Identify ONE real-world project from one of the categories below: your report should include a brief history of the project/topic, what support it has, any evaluation that has been carried out, an assessment of the importance of the project, and the future direction of the project.
• An integrated hospital records system
• A project which uses routinely-collected data to increase knowledge
• The role of IT in any specialist area of medicine
• A clinical procedure which wouldn’t be possible without IT (other than Computed Tomography)
• Computer-controlled pain management
4. Future Prospects for Medical Informatics
Identify a project-in-progress that fits one of the categories below: your report should describe what the project is trying to achieve, how it is going to do it, what are likely to be the obstacles to that achievement and how far it is in the process.
• 24 hour access to patient / client information – what will assist its achievement?
• Any website which empowers patients/clients
• A support group for any disease, e.g. diabetes, or asthma
• Citizens involvement in their own record keeping
• Virtual reality education about health matters (either for a patient or as professional staff training)
• The convergence of health and social welfare information (e.g. here)
5. Conclusions
Your report should draw on available published information and course notes to consider the impact of or need for a strategy.
6. Reference Page
You must use proper APA citation in your reference page.
