Table 1.

Responses organised according to seven health informatics themes most relevant to clinicians¹⁵ and related to bioinformatics.

Domain of health informatics	Responses from participants (direct quotations)
Protection of individuals and organisations	‘Privacy of records’ ‘Data protection and research governance’ ‘Use of information technology in healthcare’ ‘Data collection, data use, and research ethics’ ‘Digital professionalism/capabilities’ ‘Clinical audit and the relevant information gathering… electronic prescribing… patient electronic records’ ‘Work effectively within the legal and professional constraints that relate to person-identifiable information’ ‘Confidentiality and ethics, information governance’ ‘Use of Data in research’ ‘Information Governance’
Data, information and knowledge	‘Literature searching, use of databases, literature review, critical appraisal, access to EBM resources’ ‘Database searching; generic training available for various software’ ‘Medline and EBM’ ‘Literature searching and critical appraisal’ ‘Information filtering in relation to research and scholarship’ ‘Tools such as Endnote, and how to effectively search online, etc.’ ‘How to source reliable information’ ‘Decision support’ ‘Systematic literature review, critical review’ ‘Handling/processing data using Excel…. SSC [in] clinical trial/study design and analysis’ ‘Statistics and epidemiology/statistics’
Communication and information transfer	‘Use computers, computing, information and information technology effectively in a medical context’ ‘Medical records, uses of clinical data for other purposes – research, audit’ ‘Functions and importance of CIS in healthcare for patient care (long term conditions, patient pathways, communication)’
Health and care records	‘Good record keeping’ ‘Systems and process around information gathering, management, interpretation and application’ ‘Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Guidelines… best practice in notetaking’
The language of health: clinical coding and terminology	‘How to record data’ ‘Importance of clinical data quality (coding, etc.)’
Clinical systems and applications	‘Use of HNS computer systems’ ‘Use of databases in medicine, retrieval of information, use of HNS computer systems’ ‘Use of clinical Information Systems’
eHealth: the future direction of clinical care	‘E-health’ ‘Telemedicine’ ‘Big data’ ‘Role of digital technology in Medicine, including social media training, effective digital handover’ ‘New ways of delivering care underpinned by technology’
Bioinformatics	‘Bioinformatics, informatics of genomic and genetic data’ ‘Sequence analysis, gene and protein expression, elementary systems biology’ ‘Genetics, epigenetics’