A UK Operational Practitioner View – some Challenges of Health Informatics are Trans-national

Summary

Objective: To explore the relevance of catalysts and inhibitors to the achievement of an inclusive identity for health informatics; particularly from an operational perspective in the UK.

Methods: Consideration of the different dimensions of health informatics, as practised in a working healthcare delivery environment; specifically commenting on the synergy and disjunctions with academic and scientific practitioners in the same domain.

Results and Conclusions: There appear to be common ground and internationally applicable issues across the domain. Recognising the differences and similarities will contribute towards harmonisation of the field and its ultimate elevation to a mature discipline and profession.

Keywords

Healthcare delivery - health informatics - identity crisis - fragmentation - synergy

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