Dental Informatics

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Dental informatics is the application of information and communication technologies to support and further develop dental research, training and documentation.

task

Dental informatics deals, among other things, with the development of models, the development of application systems for dentistry, the introduction of such application systems and the investigation of their effects on dental care.

As part of the subject-specific specialization, as is generally the case in medical informatics, the right information should be made available in the right place at the right time and in an accelerated manner. In the context of dentistry, chair-side support and support for the work processes of those working in dentistry are of particular importance. This applies to medical diagnostics , therapy , medical documentation , billing and prevention . This also makes a decisive contribution to the increasingly important purpose of quality assurance .

history

According to the Dental Informatics Online Community, Dental Informatics has developed into a separate discipline within medical informatics , especially in the USA, over the past 40 years . In fact, there is an active "Dental Informatics" working group within the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Dental Informatics is partly taught as a subject in Biomedical Informatics programs such as the University of Pittsburgh.

The "Dental Informatics" working group of the International Medical Informatics Association is now listed as inactive again. There are no working groups on Dental Informatics within the German Society for Medical Informatics (GMDS). The previously existing working group "Applied Computer Science in Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine" in the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine has merged into a computer science section of the associated specialist society, the German Society for Computer- Aided Dentistry (DGCZ).

Overall, "Dental Informatics" seems to be seen as part of medical informatics, especially in the USA. An independent visibility of Dental Informatics in the German-speaking area seems to be missing at the moment, as well as an adequate German translation.

Further literature

  • Valerie Powell. Integration of Medical and Dental Care and Patient Data. Springer publishing house. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4471-6028-1 .
  • Gurpreet Kaur. Dental Informatics: Improving dental research, practice and education. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-3-659-48331-8 .
  • Andriani Daskalaki. Informatics in oral medicine: Advance techniques in clinical and diagnostic technologies. Medical Information Science Reference. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60566-733-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schleyer TK. Dental Informatics: An Emerging Biomedical Informatics Discipline . In: Journal of Dental Education 2003: 67 (11); 1193-1200
  2. ^ Dental Informatics Online Community . Accessed January 24, 2015
  3. ↑ AMIA. Working Group Dental Informatics . Retrieved January 24, 2015
  4. ^ University of Pittsburg. Training program in biomedical informatics . Retrieved January 24, 2015
  5. ↑ IMIA. Working Group Dental Informatics ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 24, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imia-medinfo.org
  6. ↑ GMDS. Working and project groups in the medical informatics department. Accessed on January 24, 2015
  7. ^ DGZMK, list of specialist groups . Retrieved January 24, 2015
  8. ↑ Manfred Kern, Dentistry and computer science complement each other - Annual Conference of the DGCZ , German Dental Journal 62/2007 , Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne