Questions for health informatics

1) Briefly describe information science.

2) What do we mean by information system?
3) Briefly describe health informatics.
4) Why do we need health informatics?
5) List some of the sub-fields of health informatics.
6) What do we mean by telemedicine?
7) Why do we use telemedicine?
8) What do we mean by ehealth?
9) What do we mean by mhealth?
10) List the different types of telemedicine.
11) Briefly describe health information systems.
12) List the prerequisites for an HIS to work adequately.
13) Why do we need HIS?
14) What are the challenges in implementing HIS?
15) List the types of HISs.
16) Define information retrieval (IR)
17) What are the steps to finding information or document?
18) What is included in the revised and improved definition of evidence based medicine?
19) List the steps involved in evidence based medicine.
20) Why do we use electronic medical records (EMR)?
21) What are the information that are included in medical records?
22) What do we mean by patient monitoring?
23) Why do we use clinical decision support systems (CDSS)?
24) List some examples of clinical decision support systems.
25) What is health management information system (HMIS)?