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https://www.himss.org. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS) is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems. It was founded in 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems ...
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8] Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage ...
Health informatics. Medical informatics introduces information processing concepts and machinery to the domain of medicine. Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information. [1] It can be viewed as a branch of engineering and ...
Health information management ( HIM) is information management applied to health and health care. It is the practice of analyzing and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care. With the widespread computerization of health records, traditional (paper-based) records are being replaced with ...
Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information in order to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. [1] There are multiple definitions of health literacy, [2] in part because health literacy involves both the context (or setting) in which health literacy demands are ...
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information, mimicking the proposed legislature, and another that makes healthier meal choices marginally more convenient. Raising questions about existing proposed policies, providing information had little net effect in our sample, while the subtle manipulation of convenience had a large effect on calorie intake.
Protected health information ( PHI) under U.S. law is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity (or a Business Associate of a Covered Entity), and can be linked to a specific individual. This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of a ...