Common Definition
Health informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio)medical research.

STI believes whole heartily this to be true.  STI's experience has shown that no one solution or vendor can supply the magical solution to a hospital's healthcare informatics needs.  Many times these needs involve rolling up the sleeves and getting dirty with source systems and transforming data to meet a hospital's objectives.  Whether it is getting data from an obscure system to buliding a clinical data repository or anywhere inbetween, STI has enabled leading healthcare provides get their warehouses built, participate in NIH studies and be able to benchmark across disparate system.

STI experience and expertise delivers results in areas such as:

• Data Extraction for Clinical Study Participation
• Customized Clinical Data Repositories/Data Warehousing
• Labor and Delivery Unit ad Hoc reporting