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Clinical informatics and the dental curriculum
Author(s) -
Greenwood S. R.,
Grigg P. A.,
Vowles R. V.,
Stephens C. D.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
european journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1600-0579
pISSN - 1396-5883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0579.1997.tb00091.x
Subject(s) - informatics , health administration informatics , scope (computer science) , health informatics , engineering informatics , curriculum , engineering ethics , health care , clinical practice , translational research informatics , information technology , medical education , medicine , data science , computer science , psychology , nursing , engineering , political science , pedagogy , law , electrical engineering , programming language , operating system
The origins of informatics lie in the development of computers and data processing techniques since the 1950s. The subsequent application of these to the practice of healthcare continues to the present day, so that information technology now holds the potential to revolutionise healthcare through more rapid and efficient management of an ever increasing quantity of clinical information. In dentistry, no less than in medicine, electronic systems can make an extremely valuable contribution to clinical practice. For these systems to be clinically useful, however, they need to be properly understood by clinicians. This review paper outlines the scope of clinical informatics and argues that a grounding in clinical informatics is now essential for today's undergraduates to equip them to meet the challenge of practice in the 21st century.