Welcome

Click here to add a health informatics newsfeed to your own websites for free!

Welcome to the building site for this new and exciting resource. Over the next few months many more facilities will be added (see below). For a taster, why not take a look at the following newsfeeds :

Latest medical news - the news as it happens
Hitting the Headlines - reaction from NLH to the latest news
Health informatics events - all the latest events
Health informatics jobs - a round-up of the latest job and vacancy offerings
Health informatics links
Latest virus alerts and hoaxes

These newsfeeds will be continually expanded over the coming weeks. They can also be added to your own websites for free. Instructions on how to do this are available.

More information about the Clinical Oncology Trials Database (COTDB) will be added shortly.

Feedback, comments, contributions, etc. should be directed to the UKHI founder:

Michael Humber
http://ukhi.org.uk/mh/
mh@ukhi.org.uk

UKHI will be officially launched mid to late 2007

Coming Soon ...

• Briefing sheets (including technologies, decision support, statistics/studies, privacy/confidentiality, programming, ...)

• Primary care informatics, secondary care informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, oncology informatics, ...

• History of HI in the UK

• Sources of HI information

• Hospital news (jobs, local information, outpatient's, ... )

• HI terms and glossary

• ... and much more

What is Health Informatics?

A definition from the British Medical Informatics Society:

"The terms 'medical informatics' and 'health informatics' have been variously defined, but can be best understood as the understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health. 'Health informatics' is now tending to replace the previously commoner term 'medical informatics', reflecting a widespread concern to define an information agenda for health services which recognises the role of citizens as agents in their own care, as well as the major information-handling roles of the non-medical healthcare professions.

Health informatics is thus an essential and pervasive element in all healthcare activity. It is also the name of an academic discipline developed and pursued over the past decades by a world-wide scientific community engaged in advancing and teaching knowledge about the application of information and communication technologies to healthcare - the place where health, information and computer sciences, psychology, epidemiology and engineering intersect."