West Coast Informatics announces major TermHub enhancements and launches Open TermHub, simplifying deployment and ...

A new online publication, targeted to health professionals working in the global informatics community, has been launched by AMIA, the professional association for informatics professionals. The ...

Data standards are the principal informatics component necessary for information flow through the national health information infrastructure. With common standards, clinical and patient safety systems ...

Modern healthcare is no longer practical without data integration. Without standards, integration costs soar and threaten the effectiveness of health-care delivery. With standards, information becomes ...

Genomic sequencing is rapidly changing health care and is becoming a routine part of electronic health records (EHRs). But while today’s EHRs can support common clinical decision support (CDS) tools — ...

At the intersection of healthcare and information technology is health informatics — the science that guides the collection, analysis and use of data. Why is health informatics important? It helps to ...

Common clinical data standards are critical to establishing a national health information infrastructure that can support patient safety. While progress is being made in selecting core groups of these ...