Future of Informatics in Health Care

In the previous ten years, informatics has evolved considerably. The changes in health care alone have driven corporations to do things in ways they never believed possible, as the huge volumes of data available expand by the day. The article will estimate future trends in informatics domains using data and patterns.

Throughout the past few years, informatics and data analysis breakthroughs have greatly benefited the field of healthcare. Patients will, for the most part, continue to be adequately connected to support networks and clinicians via wearable technology. Besides, patients will similarly augment their information accessibility associated with their health as well as special treatments, which is readily available to them. That is, from prescriptions towards the procedures in offices up to recommending diets, as well as exercise schedules, have seen the rising use of informatics in various areas (Alexander et al..., 2016). Health informatics do not merely permit streamlining of health records to the health care providers, but informatics similarly allows electronic transmission of information on billing, medical expenses and insurance to various departments. Besides, through health care informatics, patients get the education through different mediums like emails, mobile applications as well as regular mails. Since every data for the patient is stored in a single place, it is usually easier for health care providers to results compilation of every research conducted as well as analysis of associated trends, costs or rather threats in a manner which promotes valuable information utilization (Richesson et al., 2017).

The future of health care informatics is shifting owing to current technology advancements, which are progressively more being integrated into the lifestyles of consumers. The larger amounts of data gathered and recorded requires assimilation into health care informatics, with its reliability confirmed as well as its content firmly safeguarded(Weaver et al., 2016).

Percentage in trends on future use of informatics in health care

Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Informatics adoption(%) 41 57 68 70 75

A graph showing percentage of global adoption of informatics in health care per year

References

Alexander, G., Abbott, P., Fossum, M., Shaw, R. J., Yu, P., & Alexander, M. M. (2016). The future of informatics in aged care: an international perspective.

Richesson, R. L., Green, B. B., Laws, R., Puro, J., Kahn, M. G., Bauck, A., ... & Stephens, K. A. (2017). Pragmatic (trial) informatics: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA.

Weaver, C. A., Ball, M. J., Kim, G. R., & Kiel, J. M. (2016). Healthcare information management systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.