Ruffin M
Physician Exec. 1997 May-Jun;23(5):62-4.
Why is medical informatics important to health care leaders? As an emerging science, informatics focuses on applying computing and communication technology to decision making for clinicians and managers. It enhances the understanding of how information and communication systems can impact the work health care managers must accomplish. As the cost of technology for digital information management continues to decline, organizations and individuals will look for ways to offset the human costs of managing and conveying information. The way of the paper medical record is being replaced by the less expensive and more efficient digital information systems. Leaders of health care organizations need to look for every opportunity to deploy networks and computers to reduce the labor costs of data collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis.
为什么医学信息学对医疗保健领导者很重要？作为一门新兴科学，信息学专注于将计算和通信技术应用于临床医生和管理人员的决策制定。它增进了人们对信息和通信系统如何影响医疗保健管理人员必须完成的工作的理解。随着数字信息管理技术成本的持续下降，组织和个人将寻求方法来抵消管理和传递信息的人力成本。纸质病历的方式正被成本更低、效率更高的数字信息系统所取代。医疗保健组织的领导者需要寻找一切机会来部署网络和计算机，以降低数据收集、存储、检索和分析的劳动力成本。
