Veterinary informatics 1730701 224762538 2008-07-10T09:00:24Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other '''Veterinary informatics''' applies [[information technology]] to [[healthcare]]. Veterinary informatics and the larger field of medical informatics is often called ''[[health care informatics]]'' or [[biomedical informatics]], and forms part of the wider domain of [[eHealth]]. These later-generation terms reflect the substantive contribution of the citizen & non-medical professions to the generation and usage of healthcare data and related information. Additionally, medical informaticians are active in [[bioinformatics]] and other fields not strictly defined as health care. ==Aspects of the field== [[Image:immune auto.jpg|thumb|right|A HIS's automatic immunization data entry in the patient's admission module.]] These include: * architectures for [[electronic medical records]] and other health information systems used for billing, scheduling or research. * decision support systems in healthcare * messaging standards for the exchange of information between health care information systems (e.g. through the use of the [[HL7]] data exchange standard) - these specifically define the ''means'' to exchange data, not the content * controlled medical vocabularies such as the Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) or Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes ([[LOINC]]) - used to allow a standard, accurate exchange of data content between systems and providers. * use of hand-held or portable devices to assist providers with data entry/retrieval or medical decision-making == History == Medical informatics began in the 1950s with the rise of usable computation devices, [[computer]]s. Early names for medical informatics included medical computing, medical computer science, computer medicine, medical electronic data processing, medical automatic data processing, medical information processing, medical information science, medical software engineering and medical computer technology. The earliest use of computation for veterinary medicine was ... ==See also== *[[Telehealth]] *[[Telemedicine]] *[[Consumer health informatics]] *[[eHealth]] *[[Bioinformatics]] *[[Nursing informatics]] *[[Veterinarian]] ==External links== * [http://informatics.vetmed.vt.edu/ Veterinary Medical Informatics Laboratories (VMIL) at Virginia Tech University] * [http://www.veterinarian-software.com Veterinarian-Software reviews] * [http://www.snomed.org/ Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)] [[Category:Veterinary informatics|*]] [[Category:Health care informatics]]