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Foundation
Introduction to health informatics
Wyatt JC, Liu JL. Basic concepts in medical informatics. J
Epidemiol Community Health. 2002;56(11):808-12. doi:10.1136/jech.56.11.808
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Parent F, Coppieters Y. Parent M. Information technologies, health, and
"globalization": anyone excluded? J Med Internet Res.
2001;3(1):e11.
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Coiera E. Guide to health informatics. 2nd ed. London: Arnold. 2003.
Catalogue
Health informatics concepts
Ashton T. Recent developments in the funding and organisation of the New
Zealand health system. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2005;2(1):9. doi:10.1186/1743-8462-2-9
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Building blocks
Identity management
Urquhart GA, Williams W, Tobias J, Welch FJ. Immunization information systems use during a public health emergency in the United States. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2007;13(5):481.
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Standards and coding
McDonald CJ, Overhage JM, Dexter P, Takesue B, Suico JG. What is done, what
is needed and what is realistic to expect from medical informatics standards.
Int J Med Inf. 1998 Feb;48(1-3):5-12. doi:10.1016/S1386-5056(97)00102-0
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Hansen DP, Kemp ML, Mills SR, Mercer MA, Frosdick PA, Lawley MJ. Developing a national emergency department data reference set based on SNOMED CT. Med J Aust. 2011;194(4):S8-S10.
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de Lusignan S, Minmagh C, Kennedy J, Zeimet M, Bommezijn H, Bryant J. A survey to identify the clinical coding and classification systems currently in use across Europe. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;84(Pt 1):86-9.
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Supporting public health
de Lusignan S. What is primary care informatics? J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003;10(4):304-9. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1187
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Public Health Informatics Institute
In practice
Care at a distance
Whitten PS, Mair FS, Haycox A, May CR, Williams TL,
Hellmich S. Systematic review of cost effectiveness studies of telemedicine
interventions. BMJ. 2002;324(7351):1434-7. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1434
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Bos L, Carroll D, Marsh A. "The impatient patient". In: Bos L, Blobel B, Marsh A, Carroll D, editors. Medical and Care Compunetics 5. 2008. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2008. p. 1-13.
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Blurring the service boundaries
Birasnav M, Rangnekar S, Dalpati A. Transformational leadership and human capital benefits: the role of knowledge management. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 2011;32(2):106-26. doi:10.1108/01437731111112962
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Rodgers A, Corbett T, Bramley D, Riddell T, Wills M, Lin RB, et al. Do u smoke after txt? Results of a randomised trial of smoking cessation using mobile phone text messaging. Tob Control. 2005;14(4):255-261. doi:10.1136/tc.2005.011577
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Orr M. Creating value from electronic health knowledge managment systems: current practice in the New Zealand context. In: Xu J, James P, Sankaran S, Milne P, editors. Enhancing organisational capability through knowledge management. Lismore, NSW, Australia: Southern Cross University Press; 2009. p. 155-75.
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Building the electronic health record
Häyrinen K, Saranto K, Nykänen P. Definition, structure, content, use and impacts of electronic health records: a review of the research literature. Int J Med Inf. 2008;77(5):291-304. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.09.001
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Doing more with data, information and knowldege
Riddell T, Kenealy T, Wells S, Jackson R, Broad J. Audit of health data captured routinely in primary healthcare for the clinical decision support system PREDICT (PREDICT CVD-4). Health Care and Informatics Review Online. 2008;12(1). Available from: http://www.hinz.org.nz/journal-pdf/982
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Kawamoto K, Houlihan CA, Balas EA, Lobach DF. Improving clinical practice using clinical decision support systems: a systematic review of trials to identify features critical to success. BMJ 2005;330(7494):765. doi: 10.1136/bmj.38398.500764.8F
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Liang J, Day K, Orr M, Warren J. Insights from an iBleep trial: Understanding the implications. Health Care and Informatics Review Online. 2011;15(1):13-22. Available from: http://www.hinz.org.nz/journal/2011/04/Insights-from-an-iBleep-trial--Understanding-the-implications/1039
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Databases
Use the Articles & more tab in Library Search to find articles on your topic. For more precise searching try some of the following databases.
Health databases
Business databases
- ABI Inform
A comprehensive business database
and includes articles on information management from both trade magazines and 'academic' journals. The other major business database is Business Source Premier
- Emerald
Management Xtra
Covers information management. All articles are peer reviewed.
Computer science databases
- ACM Digital
Library
articles published in
Association for Computing Machinery journals, magazines and conference
proceedings
- Gartner Group Intraweb
Market research reports on trends, market research and new technologies.
- IEEE
Xplore
has nearly one third of the world's current literature in
electrical engineering, electronics and computer science. Completely full text and includes many conference papers
Many topics databases
- ScienceDirect
Includes journals and books. The 'All Sources' search option is usually best.
- Scopus
Has 'cited by'
links. Indexes the Healthcare and Informatics Review Online journal. Includes the contents of Medline and Embase.
- Web of Knowledge
Run your search simultaneously through a number of databases in this portal or choose Web of Science, a database within the Web of Knowledge
- Google
Scholar
Has 'cited by' links. For NGO websites, policy documents, working papers etc use
Google.
New Zealand database
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