Instructions You will discuss three topics, and you will demonstrate your understanding of the material.  For your first topic, you will define and compare and contrast Health Informatics,...

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Healthcare Technology
Introduction
Healthcare organisations are being revolutionised through the application of technology. Although not everyone recognises its significance, there is now accelerated innovation and evidence regarding the influence of healthcare information technology on clinical outcomes and the healthcare sector. It's no surprise that a growing number of healthcare organisations are em
acing cutting-edge technology and improving their processes. However, there are multiple kinds of health information technology systems, and the majority of them have comparable characteristics. All patients and professionals can benefit from a unified experience provided by health IT (Lan et al., 2020).
This paper will compare and contrast health Informatics, biomedical informatics, and bioinformatics. It will also emphasise health information exchange and pharmacy informatics.
Health Informatics, Biomedical informatics, and Bioinformatics
Health informatics is the interface of computer science, information science, as well as health care. This field is concerned with the resources, technology, and procedures required to optimise information acquisition, retrieval, storage, and application in healthcare and biomedicine. Biomedical informatics is a type of health informatics that employs data to assist physicians, scientists, and researchers in improving human health and providing healthcare. Bioinformatics is described as the use of computational and analytical tools to gather and understand biological data. It is a multidisciplinary field that combines mathematics, computer science, biology, and physics (Scott et al., 2018).
Health informatics is a pragmatic field similar to data science. While biomedical informatics is a subfield of health informatics and even an overarching word for healthcare-related informatics that encompasses anything from clinical informatics to community medical informatics. Health informatics is the organisation of computer-based data in healthcare and medicine, whereas bioinformatics is similar to (primarily molecular) biology. In addition to serving as a
anch of health informatics, biomedical informatics encompasses four subfields: public health informatics, clinical informatics, imaging informatics, and bioinformatics (Valenta et al., 2018).
Health informatics encompasses various domains, including clinical informatics, nursing informatics, imaging informatics, pharmacy informatics, and public health informatics. Biomedical informatics, computational health informatics, translational bioinformatics, dental informatics, and nutrition informatics are some of the other subfields. The primary distinction between Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics is that Biomedical Informatics is a kind of computer-based data management in medicine and healthcare, whereas Bioinformatics is a kind of biology that specialises in molecular biology. Both biomedical informatics and bioinformatics work with biological research technologies to increase scientific understanding, yet each subject has diverse end-result applications as well as desired goals (Lan et al., 2020).
The main distinction between these two is that medical informatics is more focused on algorithms and structures for manipulating medical information than on the information itself, whereas bioinformatics is focused on information regarding biomolecular and cellular structures and processes. Bioinformatics investigates biology, medicine, and genetics using computational research methodology (Scott et al.,...