Understanding Healthcare Information

Welcome to understandinghealthcareinformation.com. This site accompanies my book of the same name, and it is intended as a place where readers, and indeed anyone interested in healthcare information, can come to find out, or contribute to, new happenings. Or maybe new ideas on old happenings. In fact, anything related to healthcare information is likely to find a good home here.

The book is a guide to resources, although it goes further by expounding a domain analytic approach to healthcare information. That is, it takes the rather wider view of how information is created, disseminated, organized, index/retrieved and used. It is concerned, as is this blog, with information communication within the field of healthcare.

The book is written for those who are, or are hoping to be, specialists in healthcare information. The idea came many years ago, in the guise of the question “what would an expert in health information be expected to know?” Whilst this question arose originally from the viewpoint of a practicing information scientist, it now embraces those working and studying in more varied environments, including healthcare per se, healthcare libraries, information centers,  industry, patient support, consumer groups and public libraries.

As with any book, there will always be more to add, and this blog is where I hope to write it. Perhaps it can be considered as a “working copy” of a second edition. Comments on posts are encouraged, and can only enhance the readability, validity and variety of the entries.

If you are just interested in healthcare information, stay here. If you would like to know more about me, or library and information science, have a look at thelynxiblog.com.