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Health Care Informatics

How Healthcare Informatics Impacts Epidemiology and Health Promotion

Health care informatics involves using data and information technology to achieve the aims of health care provision (Annappa et al., 2021) which include lowering the cost of healthcare services and improving both patients’ and providers’ satisfaction among others. Data is collected by the use of surveillance systems that collect and shed light on data that is necessary for the preparation and prevention of an illness. By the use of this data, disasters are predicted long before they strike (Leung et al., 2021), investigated and the necessary measures are taken in response to the pandemic. Due to the epidemiologic risk of diseases, there is a need for close monitoring of factors causing diseases. This calls for information management which can be accomplished by the use of healthcare informatics.

Health care informatics has had a positive impact on epidemiology. Through the use of electronic surveillance systems used in healthcare informatics, professionals can gather data from healthcare facilities that have been collected continuously. The gathered data is used to make predictions on upcoming outbreaks (Leung et al., 2021). This could help in the prevention of the disease by handling the factors that could potentially lead to the outbreak of a certain disease. Additionally, it helps them in taking effective containment measures by the time the pandemic strikes. This ensures health promotion by bettering the health of individuals, and the community at large. It also helps protect them from the severity of the illnesses hence reducing the mortality rate. It also reduces the financial burden that comes with pandemics. Through the application of health informatics, there is faster and easier access to evidence hence improving the quality of services offered to patients as well as promoting evidence-based care.

 

References

Leung, C. K., Fung, D. L., Mai, D., Wen, Q., Tran, J., & Souza, J. (2021, July). Explainable data          analytics for disease and healthcare informatics. In 25th International Database  Engineering & Applications Symposium (pp. 65-74).

Annappa, B., Kumar, M. M., & Thomas, L. (2021). Foundations of healthcare informatics.          In Demystifying Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning for Healthcare Analytics (pp. 3-15). Academic Press.

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Rebeca Urbina

Impacts of Health Care Informatics on Epidemiology & Health Promotion

Health care informatics is a science of processing data for storage. Informatics is an essential aspect as it is integrated into the health care system for epidemiology and public health promotion. Informatics has improved efficiency in preventing outbreaks, case identification, public health surveillance, and acquisition of laboratory information.

In the health sector, informatics is essential in public health surveillance. Data through informatics is collected for analyses and interpretation, which is necessary for planning, evaluating public health and research i.e., epidemiology. Public health officials employ surveillance, using health-related information that indicates a high enough chance of a case or an epidemic (Magnuson et al., 2020). The surveillance systems are designed to acquire unfiltered and unprecedented data. Informatics allows the collection of firsthand data through surveys, electronic data, and case reporting from doctors (Reeves et al., 2021). Therefore, information obtained is used in the detection of possible infectious cases has been targeted via surveillance. It's also utilized to keep an eye out for bioterrorist attacks.

Informatics has also aided in facilitating the detection and prevention of potential disease outbreaks. The informatics provides the health care system with enough information to allow the department to make assumptions of possible outbreaks and promote early preparation for the outbreak. According to McGonigle (2021), the rapid response depends solely on the data retrieved by medical experts through a timely collection of data. Therefore, health systems will have the knowledge and time to act before health hazards happen. Remarkably, informatics is a vital tool in epidemiology and health promotion. They are responsible for providing information that would be handy to health workers. Therefore, it promotes health by reducing the possibility of an outbreak and providing information on the general population.

References

Magnuson, J. A., Hopkins, R., & McFarlane, T. D. (2020). Informatics in disease prevention and epidemiology. In Public Health Informatics and Information Systems (pp. 239-258). Springer, Cham. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123923/

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2021). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Reeves, J. J., Pageler, N. M., Wick, E. C., Melton, G. B., Tan, Y. H. G., Clay, B. J., & Longhurst, C. A. (2021). The clinical information systems response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yearbook of medical informatics, 30(01), 105-125.