• Eur J Dent Educ · Nov 1997

    Review

    Clinical informatics and the dental curriculum. A review of the impact of informatics in dental care, its implications for dental education.

    • S R Greenwood, P A Grigg, R V Vowles, and C D Stephens.
    • University of Bristol Dental School and Hospital, UK.
    • Eur J Dent Educ. 1997 Nov 1;1(4):153-61.

    AbstractThe origins of informatics lie in the development of computers and data processing techniques since the 1950s. The subsequent application of these to the practice of healthcare continues to the present day, so that information technology now holds the potential to revolutionise healthcare through more rapid and efficient management of an ever increasing quantity of clinical information. In dentistry, no less than in medicine, electronic systems can make an extremely valuable contribution to clinical practice. For these systems to be clinically useful, however, they need to be properly understood by clinicians. This review paper outlines the scope of clinical informatics and argues that a grounding in clinical informatics is now essential for today's undergraduates to equip them to meet the challenge of practice in the 21st century.

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