Health Informatics

Health Informatics

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the health informatics and the trends and issues faced by this area of science since its evolution. Healthcare and information technology, over the past various decades, have gone through a phase of drastic change due to a huge amount of opportunities and pressures, several of which continue to evolve and persist. With the movement of society into the globalization of information, technology, and communication, Health information systems require reflecting what is taking place for ensuring the best possible employment of clinical information.

Discussion

Modern data transmission and communication is progressively altering the way common tasks are executed by the people such as making a phone call. The industry of healthcare has been progressing and developing with informatics over a period of ten years. Enhancing the efficacy of healthcare industry is an effective means for cutting down the escalated prices. Cutting edge trends and solutions to the information technology would diminish the bottom line at the same time as yet permitting the professional for providing appropriate care to the patients (Kenneth, 1998).

Three current trends in Health Information Systems to optimize the use of information

Mobile EHR

The mobile records of health care are providing more options to the doctors for serving their patients and clients. The time when they had to wait for the answering service to contact the doctor and request a call-back might at last be over. Mobile solutions for healthcare put the office of the doctor in the pocket of the physician. The prospect trends of mobile health technology indicate that the consumers as well as doctors would turn to tablet computer and smart phone applications for the purpose of managing healthcare (Kazimierz, 2005).

Remote Management

Patients are empowered by the digital health products. Patients, with the appropriate application, may take ...