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- 1 The Clinical Informatics Wiki -- Clinfowiki
- 1.1 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems
- 1.2 Core Competencies in Clinical Informatics
- 1.3 Blueprint for a Comprehensive HIT System
- 1.4 U.S. Federal Health Information Technology Initiatives
- 1.5 The E-Patient-Provider Relationship
- 1.6 Interface Terminology
- 1.7 International views
- 1.8 Blogposium, April 2006
- 1.9 Reviews of Recent articles on Clinical Informatics
- 1.10 Endowed Professorships and Chairs in Health / Medical / Nursing / Biomedical Informatics
- 1.11 External Links
The Clinical Informatics Wiki -- Clinfowiki
The Clinical Informatics Wiki is an implementation of a wiki devoted to topics in clinical informatics. To begin a new article, or edit an existing article, you must first create an account and login to the ClinfoWiki.
Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.
You can test your edits as much as you want in the Sandbox.
We are currently working on 1,581 articles, and we need your help to complete this study of Clinical Informatics. See Special:Statistics for more complete information on the site.
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems
see EMR
==Computer-based Provider Order Entry -- CPOE== see CPOE
==Clinical Decision Support -- CDS== see CDS
==Personal Health Records -- PHRs== see PHR
Core Competencies in Clinical Informatics
Blueprint for a Comprehensive HIT System
- Introducing new categories of HIT tools, which compliment the ones above
- Blueprint for an Integrated HIT system
==Biobanking -- a.k.a. Biorepositories or Tissue Banks == see BioBanking
National Cancer Institute Biobanking/Biorepositories
The National Cancer Institute’s pilot program to establish a multi-center, yet standardized, biorepository of cancer specimens began with the prostate cancer Biorepository Coordination System (BCS).(1) This was a planned eleven institution physical and informational network linking individual institutional repositories of prostate cancer specimens into a giant, integrated resource with aims to improve research into prostate cancer biomarkers. The program was meant to be initiated in two stages, with progress reviews of the first stage occurring in January and April of 2006. (2) Unfortunately, the project was felt to not be cost effective and was subsequently abandoned.
One survivor of the BCS project is the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). caBIG is both a network of over 80 collaborating organizations (including 50 National Cancer Institute-designated as well as a collection of freely-available web-based software packages, including software to gather and process laboratory results including blood tests, micro-array data, and single nucleotide polymorphism data. (3)
Current National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have resulted in two ongoing research projects. The Cancer Genome Atlas is a project to characterize the messenger RNA signatures of different tumors (4), while the Clinical Proteonomic Technologies Initiative is a corollary effort on characterizing the protein expression signature of tumors (5).
These National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have not only included “wet bench” projects and informatics programs, but also the development of ethical guidelines and patient protection statements. Foremost among these statements is the First-Generation Guidelines for NCI-Supported Biorepositories. (6)
(1) NIH press release, November 7, 2005 < www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2005/nci-07c.htm>
(2) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/resources/faqs.asp
(3) https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/participants
(4) http://cancergenome.nih.gov/index.asp
(5) http://proteomics.cancer.gov/
(6) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/
==Regional Health Information Organizations -- RHIOs== see RHIO
==Evidence-Based Medicine -- EBM== see EBM
U.S. Federal Health Information Technology Initiatives
- Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
- Council on the Application of Health Information Technology (CAHIT)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Indian Health Service (IHS)
- Health Services and Resource Administration (HRSA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- Combined U.S. Department of Defense / Veterans Affairs Initiatives
- U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Initiatives
- Department of Veterans Affairs Initiatives
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The E-Patient-Provider Relationship
Interface Terminology
International views
Blogposium, April 2006
The Blogposium, held from April 18-20, was an innovation in collaborative blogging and wiki building.
The effort marshalled the expertise and energy of several dozen health bloggers and volunteers to expand and refine this Clinical Informatics Wiki. Bloggers posted their first drafts of entries as posts or links to this wiki and invited readers to provide comments and edit suggestions.
While many bloggers and readers contributed to this Web 2.0 innovation in collaborative work, key participants included the follow blogs. Please visit them and thank them for their contributions:
- Considerations on Regional Health Information Organizations
- Conmergence on Telehealth
- Drugwonks on FDA Critical Path Initiative
- eHealth on Integration of Personal Health Records and Electronic Medical Records
- EMR and HIPAA on Electronic Medical Records and Biometric Integration
- Envisioning 2.0 on The E-Patient-Provider Relationship
- healthnex.org HealthNex (two other topics: Biobanking and Genetic Privacy Issues
- HITsmit on e-MAR Systems
- HIT Transition on RHIO Startup Funding and Finance
- Informaticopia on International Perspectives on Clinical Informatics
- Marketplace.MD on the Consumer-Driven Health Care Movement
- Medical Connectivity on Integrating Medical Devices into EMRs
- medmusings on Mobile Access to EMR/EHR/PHR for Providers and Patients
- Usemed on Ongoing and Completed EHR, CPOE and CDS Implementation Projects
- WellnessWiki an ever-evolving virtual encyclopedia of the healthcare crisis and potential remedies
Reviews of Recent articles on Clinical Informatics
See Reviews