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Health Informatics
4 entries across the knowledge base
What health informatics isThe discipline that sits between clinicians, data and computers — designing how health information is captured, stored, moved and used so it actually helps care.article · 5 min · foundationMaster patient index (MPI)How a health system knows that records from a dozen places are the same person — identity matching, the EMPI, and why a wrong match can be dangerous.article · 5 min · foundationEHR & EMR systemsThe digital chart at the centre of modern care — what's inside it, how EHR differs from EMR, and why the hard part is workflow, not storage.article · 5 min · foundationClinical decision support (CDS)Putting the right knowledge in front of the right person at the right moment in the workflow — from a drug-interaction alert to a risk score, done well enough to be trusted.article · 5 min · foundation