What does BHI mean in HEALTHCARE

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) is a rapidly growing field that studies the intersection of health care and information technology. It focuses on applying IT to improve the quality of health care delivery, enhance patient safety, reduce healthcare costs, and promote research.

The goals of BHI include automating the collection, management, and retrieval of clinical data; improving decision-making; supporting evidence-based practice; facilitating patient education and providing access to real-time health information.

BHI can help improve healthcare by increasing efficiency with faster access to clinical data for clinicians, reducing medical errors due to more automated processes in collecting/managing data which reduces human error as well as providing better patient education with online tools.

Technology used in BHI includes electronic health records (EHR), decision support systems (DSS), telemedicine/eHealth platforms, intelligent computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) as well as research techniques such as artificial intelligence (AI).

Professionals involved in BHI include clinicians from all fields such as nurses and physicians, administrators from hospitals or clinics, public health workers from federal or local governments as well as informaticists who specialize in coding databases. Also specialists including industrial engineers who do process optimization within a hospital or laboratory setting.