Editing Health informatics (section)

=== Tools to support practitioners ===
Clinical informaticians use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts, methods, and [[health informatics tools]] to:
* Assess information and knowledge needs of health care professionals, patients and their families.
* Characterize, evaluate, and refine clinical processes,
* Develop, implement, and refine [[clinical decision support system]]s, and
* Lead or participate in the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical information systems.
Clinicians collaborate with other health care and information technology [[professionals]] to develop [[health informatics tools]] which promote patient care that is safe, efficient, effective, timely, patient-centered, and equitable. Many clinical informaticists are also computer scientists.