health informatics

see also:

• Emergency Physicians International (EPi) - EM Informatics group
• Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)
• Australia's National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA)
• Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) - annual conference late November
• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) - annual symposium usually in late October
• American National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics (ncemi.org)
• European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) - annual symposium usually late August
• electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI)
• Healthcare Informatics online journal (American)
• medical blogs and podcasts
• medical web portals, directories, news aggregators, etc
• Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) for Australia
• electronic health records (EHRs)
• architecture and database relationships considerations for the EHR for Emergency Departments
• Choosing an Emergency Information System
• Systems to ensure adequate and timely follow up of investigation results such as radiology and pathology
• clinical decision support systems (CDSS)
• Victorian Emergency Department Minimum Dataset (VEMD)
• Windows 8 slate tablet devices for hospital use
• personal cloud computing - SkyDrive, OneNote, iCloud, DropBox
• artificial intelligence

• health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, decision support systems, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems.
• clinical informatics is concerned with use of information in health care by clinicians

• Biomedical Informatics - University of Utah
• Desiderata - Australian hospital IT database resources

• The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS)
• Australian National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH)
• HL7 messaging Australia
• Australia's Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) - bridging the gap between standards and implementation
• openEHR - International body aiming to creat specifications, open source software and tools for health computing platforms
• LOINC laboratory names and codes
• SNOMED CT
• DICOM clinical image format standard

• NZ Guidelines Group (NZGG)

• Alcidion
• Ascribe's Symphony
• Core Medical Solutions - BossNet
• Health Management Systems (HMS)
• iSoft iPM and HASS EDIS
• Australia's Coalition for eHealth (CEH) - directory of member organisations
• Health IT companies yellow pages (US-based)