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Health Informatics @ Home
How can information technology best help provide patient care at a distance? As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, George Demiris, Ph.D., helped find out through an innovative effort known as the TeleHomeCare project. Today, as director of the Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies Program at the University of Washington, Demiris continues the theme, exploring how information technology can support family caregivers of hospice patients.
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Health Informatics Meets the World Wide Web
Punch cards for programming and green-glowing type on a clunky video display terminal were the latest information technology innovations when Donald Connelly, M.D., Ph.D., began his foray into what’s now known as health informatics. As hardware and software evolved, Connelly—now U of M professor of health informatics and laboratory medicine and pathology—played a pivotal role in bringing the World Wide Web into the picture.
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IT - and Health Care, Too
With one uncle a physician, another a pharmacist, and a grandfather who also owned a medicine store, Amen Amusan always sort of assumed she would pursue a career in health care. But then in college she majored in computer science, and ended up working as an information technology consultant instead. It wasn’t until she moved to the United States from her native Nigeria to take a job in IT support with Allina Hospitals & Clinics that she realized she could combine the two.
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