Category talk:Health Sciences Workgroup

Medical informatics

There needs to be an article on medical informatics or healthcare informatics. There is such an article on Wikipedia, but it strikes me more as a collection of links than an article with any real sense of unity. Of course, there is some question as to the nature of the discipline itself. For many, it is simply all aspects of the use of computers in medicine, and I suppose that is a reasonable definition, but it is hardly very enlightening. My experience has been that there are common themes (distributed computing, databases, security and privacy, metadata, ontologies, interfaces at higher levels of abstraction, decision support, etc.) and the field certainly has a very different "flavor" from enterprise applications in other fields. Still, I find it very difficult to identify what might be called the essence of the field, and that makes it difficult to write a main article that is not essentially a grab bag, along the lines of the Wikipedia article. I'm open to suggestions here. Greg Woodhouse 16:19, 29 March 2007 (CDT)

Former Category:Health Sciences Workgroup (abolished)

The following articles were included in the Healing Arts Workgroup prior to its abolition:

Acid-Base homeostasis Acupuncture point Acupuncture Allopathy Alternative medicine (theories) American Institute of Homeopathy Anise Anthroposophy Aromatherapy Art therapy Ayurveda Bach flower therapy Biofield therapy Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Chiropractic Chiropractic (Veterinary) Chiropractic education Chiropractic history Chiropractor Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen Cognitive behavioral therapy Complementary and alternative medicine Council on Chiropractic Education Critical views of chiropractic Dance therapy Daniel David Palmer Dietary supplement Energy medicine Evidence-based medicine Faith healing Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations

Flexner Report Healing arts Health care delivery Hippocrates History of Homeopathy Homeopathic proving Homeopathy Hypnosis Ibn Sina Imagery (psychotherapy) Indigenous knowledge system Infection Integrative medicine Lumbalgia Marcia Angell Marijuana Massage Materia Medica Medicine Meditation (physiology) MEDLINE Mercy Guidelines Meridian (Chinese medicine) Meridian (Medicine) Metabolic acidosis Miklos Nyiszli Mind-body therapies Musculoskeletal manipulations National Board of Chiropractic Examiners National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Natural family planning Naturopathy

Nigella sativa Nutritional therapy Occupational therapy Oscillococcinum Osteopathy Paracelsus Pelargonium sidoides Pericarditis Phrenology Physician Phytotherapy Placebo effect Plant extract Professional associations of chiropractic Qigong Queen Anne's Lace Reflexology Reiki Relaxation techniques (complementary medicine) Samuel Hahnemann Scoliosis Shamanism Shang reviews of homeopathy Society for Scientific Exploration Somatoform disorder Spiritual therapies Sympathetic magic The Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry Therapeutic touch Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional medicine Vertebral subluxation Xanthine

List transferred to this page for preservation. John (talk) 21:42, 12 October 2019 (UTC)