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First published March 28, 2003 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M1187
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2003;10(4):304-309
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Submitted on July 16, 2002
Accepted on February 23, 2003

What is Primary Care Informatics?

Simon de Lusignan BSc, MBBS, MSc, MRCGP1*

Affiliation of the authors: 1 Primary Care Informatics, Department of Community Health Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, England

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Primary care informatics is an emerging academic discipline, which remains undefined. The unique nature of primary care necessitates the development of its own informatics discipline. A definition of primary care informatics is proposed, which encompasses the distinctive nature of primary care. The core concepts and theory that should underpin it are described. Primary care informatics is defined as a science, and as a subset of health informatics. The proposed definition is intended to focus the development of a generalizeable core theory for this informatics subspecialty.




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