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Department of Information Science
Dep. of health informatics and epidemiology
Health informatics and epidemiology,
Basic section Health informatics and epidemiology
Introduction
Department of Health informatics and epidemiology is a small classroom and have one professor and one technician.
We are doing the education and the research of the information science, which is the basis of society of modern times. We are managing the information network and computer system of the nursing faculty.
The information revolution started for 20 years or more by centering on the reservation management and financial system, etc. Now, IT (information technology) has been taken even to every corner of life.
However, informationization in the health care field has taken a considerable falling behind compared with other fields. It is from a reason why a highly developed privacy protection is demanded of the health information.
As for informationization of the medicine, development was advanced concurrently with the medical accounting system.
As a result, an electronic clinical record etc. has reached the stage of practical use now, too.
However, informationization of nursing is a stage, which arrives at the beginning.
As for informationization of nursing, the development in the future is expected very much.
Our classroom develops the education and the research, which centers on the informationized nursing.
Research
In our research, the collection, the arrangement, and the use of the health information are subjects.
EBM (Evidence based medicine) is actively talked about in the world of the medical treatment.
Naturally, the conclusion based on grounds is requested in the field of nursing.
Now, correct handling of information is needed.
We are making interdisciplinary by which a computer, health, an epidemiology and statistical study are integrated. This is called a health information science.
We are working on developing and the making of the evaluation index of the health, the medical treatment, and welfare a database. Of course, these are one corresponding to the change in the age.
The homepage is generalized as an information service leverage concerning the health. The health education through the homepage and the offer of the technique, etc. are researched.
In addition, the software development for the efficiency improvement of the nursing business is executed.
Moreover, international healthcare information is assumed to be one about the research theme. The reason is to connect with making of the administration and the service offer operating effectiveness information is the one used internationally.
Education
In the faculty education, we are taking charge of statistical study and the information science.
Statistical study learns the handling of various numeric data encountered when nursing is practiced and the interpretation. This becomes a necessary, indispensable for practice the nursing based on grounds fundamental science.
Statistical study is learnt at the first term of one year.
The information science is learnt in the form of the maneuver through one year.
In the maneuver, the handling of scientific information is learnt. It is a method of collecting, arranging, distinguishing, classifying, analyzing, and expressing information, which becomes grounds of a scientific judgment.
Of course, students work positively about the Internet, and my homepage making and sending are done.
We are complying with the request of the lecture and the consultation about effective use of the health, the medical treatment, and welfare information and statistical handling of the healthcare information, etc. according to the request of the region community.
In addition, educational guidance to the person to who was dispatched by the developing country is executed.
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