INFO 320 Healthcare Informatics

Research the different roles associated with healthcare informatics, how these roles integrate into healthcare delivery and their impact to healthcare management. Be sure to address the following questions in your paper:

 

1. What is the significance of informatics in healthcare?

2. What are the different entities involved in healthcare informatics?

3. What part do they play in the delivery of healthcare? How do these roles differ, how are they similar?

4. How are patients impacted with the evolution of healthcare informatics? What implications are there?

5. How is future innovation changing the landscape?

 

 

Beyond direct patient care, explore roles outside healthcare delivery systems such as 3rd parties, government entities, non profits, health plans, community organizations and technology vendors. Focus on human roles while referencing organizational bodies. Be sure to include the role of the patient, taking a patient centric view with mindful observations. Include a balanced analysis that recognizes both the limitations and positive outcomes from healthcare informatics. Avoid conjecture.

 

For the purpose of this assignment, you are expected to go broad versus deep while addressing the ecosystem that makes up healthcare informatics. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association offers several peer reviewed articles on health informatics and could serve as a good starting point for your research.