1. Health informatics refers to the medical field focused on processing data, communication, research, and study related to therapeutic activities. Advancements in technology have greatly contributed to developments in health informatics. 2. Technological improvements have integrated patient health informatics and IT with community health policies and enabled patients to access electronic medical records. This empowers patients and allows clinicians to intervene using decision support software. 3. Developments in health informatics have reduced treatment costs by enabling patients to access health information online and make informed choices without needing to see a clinician. Computer applications also help integrate patient preferences with evidence and history for treatment decisions.

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3. HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Health Informatics
University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences
IPE7400B900: Healthcare Informatics and Technology
Management
Health Informatics
Health informatics refers to the medical field that focuses on
data processing, therapeutic activities communication, research,
and study. There have been advancements in the recent past that
have contributed a great deal to health informatics. Among the
improvements is the technological growth in the medical field
(Nelson.et.al, 2018).
According to the recent health technological trends, there is
integration between client health informatics and information
technology as shares of the contemporary thought of community
well-being and policies related to public healthcare. Patients are
also adapting and using current systems, aimed at healthcare
experts, at home. Electronic medical records of the patients are

4. also accessible to the patients, which is useful in empowering
the patients. Medical experts are also able to intervene
whenever patients need help in making informed decisions, by
the use of software designed for computer-based decision aids.
Due to the positive impacts that information technological
advancements have had on health informatics, there is
subsequent development of many initiatives with the intention
of improving the value of healthiness info. The efforts focus on
patient education, encouragement of self-classification, and
self-control of healthcare workers. It helps in the evaluation and
rating of data and therefore enhances enforcement of
compliance with the criterion.
Advancements within health informatics field have enabled
reduction of treatment costs. Through the use of computers,
clients can make informed choices regarding their health and
therefore do not have to see a healthcare expert. It gets
attributed to increased access to interactive data that can easily
be made available to clients through the use of internet and
other related technologies, which coincides with the desire of
many clients to be responsible for their healthiness. The
changes could also get attributed to the emphasis on the health
of the population and even preventive measures of various
ailments (myPHR, 2016).
Advancement in information technology has enabled easy access
to health records to clients. The primary purpose of health
informatics is to empower clients by making their health records
more accessible to them, comprising of their medical service
activities such as diagnosis, results, individual risk factors as
well as prescribed drugs. Use of information technology has
expanded the means through which clients can access their
health records. It could be over the internet, implementation of
smart cards, or even implementation of both. The use of
smartcards goes further to protect patient’s data security by
ensuring private access to patients’ health information
(Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,
2016).

5. Also, electronic record keeping has played a significant role in
tailoring health information to patients. Through the use of the
internet, it is possible for any patient to link their health data
with knowledge attained from other databases and websites such
as Medline. With the advancements that have come up, it is
possible for any patient to access information regarding their
medical trends through their phones and computers. The tailored
information is essential even during instigation of changes as
far as health mannerisms, and knowledge increment is
concerned.
Computer-based applications have also helped the clinicians in
integrating their clients’ preferences with scientific evidence,
their history as well as local constraints. The applications are
also helpful to clients while making decisions regarding
treatment or screening based on their first choice for diverse
results. The decision aids are desirable even more in a situation
when the optimum administration policy hangs on the strong
suit of the client’s preferences for the diverse healthcare results
that could get obtained from the choice.
The improvement in information technology assists a great deal
in controlling the value of healthcare info through the internet.
There are four mainstays on which quality control lies on the
web: encouragement of self-control of healthcare experts,
patients’ training, evaluation of health data by third parties, and
enforcement of sanctions when there is the dissemination of
fraud. There are significant advancements in all the pillars that
have come up in the recent past. Currently, there is an
undergoing project that aims at establishing an institution that
permits people, societies, associations, and organizations to
measure the value of published healthcare data that is available
online through the use of standardized vocabulary. The project
is known as medCERTAIN. It also aims at creating various
stages of authorization for healthcare experts who broadcast
online health data via the internet. The steps will vary from the
simplest of ethical standards to that of the best rules
(AHIMAonDEMAND, 2010).

6. Although the technological advancements have a significant
impact on the reduction of the knowledge difference between
medical experts and patients, it has also created a vast
difference between those who can easily access the internet and
computer and those who cannot (HealthIT, 2016). For this
reason, I believe that technological advancements will have a
long-term effect on society. Those who can easily access online
data will be at an advantage. However, those who cannot access
it will be left uninformed and somehow ignored in the society.
I believe that technological advancements have more positive
impacts as far as health informatics are concerned that the
adverse effects, even though they could bring about the
knowledge gap between the haves and the have-nots. More
improvements will, therefore, be recommendable.
References
AHIMAonDEMAND (2010, January 28). What a PHR can do
for you [Video file]. Retrieved from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQJVceBNXFY
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. (
2015, February 20). mHealth app essentials: Patient
engagement, considerations, and implementation. Retrieved
from:http://www.himss.org/mhealth-app-essentials-patient-
engagement-considerations-and-implementation
myPHR https://www.myphr.com/
HealthIT. (n.d.). The guide to getting & using your health
records. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/how-to-get-
your-health-record/
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2018). Health informatics: An
interprofessional approach (2nd ed.). St. Louis, Missouri:
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