Aspects of the Health Informatics

• architectures for electronic medical records and other health information systems used for billing, scheduling, and research
• decision support systems in healthcare, including clinical decision support systems and information workflows
• standards (DICOM, HL7) and integration profiles (e.g. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) to facilitate the exchange of information between healthcare information systems—these specifically define the means to exchange data, not the content
• controlled medical vocabularies (CMVs) such as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), MEDCIN, Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), OpenGALEN Common Reference Model or the highly complex UMLS—used to allow a standard, accurate exchange of data content between systems and providers
• use of hand-held or portable devices to assist providers with data entry/retrieval or medical decision-making, sometimes called mHealth.
• The international standards on the subject are covered by ISO 27799:2008.
• Molecular bioinformatics and clinical informatics have converged into the field of translational bioinformatics.