this ppt describe the The healthcare informatics profession in WORLD and how is it in Saudi Arabia ..

1. The Healthcare
Informatics Profession
Yasmin Aldosari

2. Outlines
• What is Health Informatics?
• Services
• The population to serve
• The preparation required to acquire it and Skills
• Health Informatics in Saudi Arabia
• Statistics for Graduates of HI
• Conclusion

3. What is Health Informatics (HI)?
• The knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected,
managed, used and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and
promote health.
• Healthcare informatics is the field within information science concerned
with the management of healthcare data and information using computers
and other technologies
• The National Health Service (NHS) explains that the HI career field is one of
the fastest growing areas within healthcare.

4. Services
• Create electronic health records for every person in the country or
• Explore patient data to identify disease and treatment trends.
• Concerned with the collection, storage, and analysis of information related
to administration, program development, patient care, and public health
issues.

5. The Population to Serve
• Support
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Quality Patient Care
Medical Research
Health Planning
Healthcare Evaluation
And Financial

6. The Preparation Required to Acquire it and
Skills
• HI requires technical skills that are used to manipulate
data into useful reports.
• This means that a working knowledge of statistical
analysis and data integration within the database
storage software are required.
• Bachelor's and master’s degree or certificates in HI

7. The Preparation Required to Acquire it and
Skills
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Sub-disciplines of health informatics
• nursing informatics
• medical informatics
• pharmacy informatics
• clinical informatics
• dental informatics
• public health informatics
• and mental health informatics
• etc.

8. Health Informatics Services
UK

9. Health Informatics in Saudi Arabia

10. Health Informatics in Saudi Arabia
• Very new field.
• Saudi Association for Health Information (SAHI) was established in 2006
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Develop theoretical and applicable knowledge, and provide applicable scientific studies

11. Statistics for Graduates of HI
Educational sectors
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for
Health Sciences
Degree
Established year
Job Title
Bachelor’s
2006
Specialist
0
Senior-Specialist
66
Master’s
Number of Graduate
Saudi Electronic University
Bachelor’s
2012
Specialist
0
AlQaseem University
Bachelor’s
2011
Specialist
0
Umm Al-Qura University
Bachelor’s
2011
Specialist
0
Jazan University
Bachelor’s
2011
Specialist
0
Hail University
Bachelor’s
2011
Specialist
0

12. King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health
Sciences Master Program
• This program accepts students with bachelor’s degrees in IT, medical, and
hospital management, and it has had 66 students graduate (41 female and
25 male) from its master’s degree program since 2008

13. Conclusion
• Very new field of study in Saudi Arabia
• The healthcare sector still does not understand the role HI plays in
healthcare in SA.
• World needs 50,000 HI professionals in the next five to seven years
 SA needs more HI professionals.
• SAHI has poor information and old.