Healthcare Informatics for Better Healthcare

The advent of new healthcare technologies, medications, treatments, and procedures, is pushing providers and clinicians to incorporate  them into their healthcare settings. Physicians absorb and integrate both old and new knowledge to their practices, and apply the same to their patients’ care. To provide quality care and a better patient experience, healthcare settings are implementing digital technology so that they can get an instant access to each patient’s individual health status and background, and can communicate quickly with patients, hospitals, and other providers. 

However, in the past, meeting these expectations was difficult because of the obvious reasons. Lack of digital technology, absence of EHR/ EMR systems to organize, store, and retrieve medical and patient information and the systems like HIE were not developed. 

However today, new tools and methodologies exist that can help clinicians meet each of these challenges and the use of healthcare informatics supports health information technology, medical practice and medical research to gain better insights and outcomes. To that end, health informatics involves systems such EHR/ EMR, HIE standards, medical terminologies such as Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms, and portable medical devices for the collection and analysis of data, management and use of information in health care.

Here, the healthcare software developers play an important role in providing user-friendly software and smart apps so that clinicians can combat with the prevailing challenges such as improving the quality of patient care and patient safety, preventing medical errors, reducing costs, helping patients manage their conditions, and minimizing the impact of bio-terrorism.