Think back on the last time you accessed health care services in your community and make recommendations for incorporating unapplied telecommunications concepts that would have improved your last visit. Provide specific examples to support your response.
It is not unreasonable for a patient to expect particular services from their healthcare providers. What happens when you are traveling and have to make a trip to the emergency room, will your doctor at home get the information from that visit? Health information recorded in paper format makes these tasks very hard, if not impossible. Luckily, there is a growing movement to transform that, using information management and information technology. The use of this type of equipment allows for "high-quality, safe, and competent care. Society today is constantly changing. Society changes jobs, location of residence, and doctors often. While society speaks of a medical structure American medicine is disorganized: it lacks standards, measures, and the ability to exchange information that constitutes a true structure. The medical industry has taken to every kind of clinical technology; from digital thermometers to CT scanners. However, the implementation of information management and information technology in the medical industry falls behind the rest of our economy.
Health informatics is best described as the position where information science, medicine, and healthcare all meet. It encompasses the resources, devices, and methods required to enhance the development, storage, retrieval, and the use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics incorporates tools such as computers clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information management and information technology.
