Hi Everybody,
Let me first share with you a definition I like for the term Clinical Informatics or generally speaking Healthcare Informatics:
"The Center for Clinical Informatics describes clinical informatics as the process of converting data to accessible and actionable information that enables improvements in the effectiveness, quality and value of the services."
Does this mean without automating healthcare services and manipulating data repositories, we cannot improve the value of our healthcare services? Yes we can! Hundereds of paper-based hospitals and clinics are still running sucessfully for decades while physicians still hate and fight having to write or prescribe on a computer. In all the clinical information system implementation projects I experienced; all customer sponsors shared one common decision: We will not force our doctors to use it. Instead; try to find a way to make them do!
The funny thing is; the same could not be said about accountants, HR, or store staff. Although businesses and gevernments ran paper accounting, HR, and stores departments for decades as well, but the early adoption of ERP and HRIS which started much earlier than HIMS, makes it now unucceptable not to get all these administration employees use the computer. Why?..
