INFORMATION EXCHANGE PROCEDURES

Information Exchange Procedures

Information Exchange Procedures

Introduction

The information exchange procedure adopted by the healthcare organization is Medical Informatics. Medical informatics is the application of computing and communications to the area of health, through the use of medical software as part of health technologies. Its main purpose is to serve health professionals to improve the quality of healthcare.

It deals with resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information on health and biomedicine. There are several ways of defining medical informatics. Enrico Coiera defines it as: "The study of how knowledge is created ...