The 2 Best Reasons to Get an Expert in Health Informatics

Average read time: 5 mins

• What is Health Informatics
• What does an expert in Health Informatics do?
• Why should we get an expert?

It has become more apparent in this modern time that taking care of our health is not so simple, and it can also be costly and frustrating. Thankfully, with the progress of our technology Health Informatics is reducing the challenges of the medical field such as getting the same information (medical history, test results, allergies, etc) to the nurses, doctors, other healthcare providers and even insurance companies. 

First of all, What is Health Informatics? Health Informatics is the collecting, storing, managing, and studying of medical data. This data will be in the form of EMR (electronic medical records) or EHR (electronic health records), and will be given to all their healthcare providers for maximum efficiency. The main difference between the two is that EHR’s records are more broad while EMR is more specific. The data can include but is not exclusive to contact information, medical history, immunizations, patient’s demographics, allergies, laboratory data, vital signs, and current and past medications, and radiology reports. 

What a Health Informatics expert will do is develop and manage the systems on which all this data is gathered. They provide the software for the hospitals or wherever they work and keep it safe while also analyzing all the necessary information. This way all the healthcare professionals under the same system have the convenience to access all the data easily. If that hasn’t convinced you yet of the usefulness of it then here are the 2 best reasons to get an expert in Health Informatics.

Improved and Efficient Results

Doctors and nurses provide and consolidate the data of their patients so they can take care of more people quickly and effectively. Since everything is more coordinated and organized, there will be no worrying about scrambling for all the necessary information. Instead the only thing the healthcare professionals will focus on is what was always the priority, the health of their patients. The best thing to remember is that the main purpose of Health Informatics is to help healthcare providers save lives. This happens through organizing patient’s information and records for easy access by any healthcare professional, resulting in a quicker diagnosis and treatment, and minimizing miscommunication between each healthcare department. Especially during a pandemic like COVID-19, having organized patient records help healthcare providers in tracking and classifying those who are patient under monitoring (PUM) or patient under investigation (PUI).

Saving time and money

Thanks to Health Informatics more procedures are being automated rather than being handled manually such as the collection and logging of medical information. This helps free up more time for the doctors, nurses, and hospitals to focus on their patients and even leads to saving more money because less work is done. Through proper handling of the information more lives will be saved by avoiding medication errors which killed 550 people daily in 2017, in the US. In the US the healthcare cost due to adverse drug events (taking the wrong medication) was about 136 billion dollars. Other errors can also be because of doctor’s handwriting, misreading orders, poor communication, and poor documentation. An expert equipped with Health Informatics literacy can greatly reduce the costs of healthcare and improve the lives of both patients and caretakers.

Closing Remarks

The world is full of complex and specialized diseases, and the human body is still not fully understood. Problems such as lost medical information, slow or lacking results should not be an issue that hospitals or patients face in these trying times. People deserve the best care that can be provided for them.

Infinit-O is the trusted customer-centric and sustainable leader in Business Process Optimization to Small and Medium businesses in the Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology sectors by delivering continuous improvement through technology, data and people.

We understand the value of Health Informatics and how it can drastically improve the lives of those using it. Our priority is to improve your healthcare business through our state of the art technological solutions. We can help provide you with an expert in Healthcare Informatics that has proficiency in information technology, skills in project and data management, and excellent with strategy and planning. It could be a nurse informatics, chief medical information officer, director of clinical informatics, clinical data analyst, or an IT consultant that specializes in Health Informatics. The main goal is to help save lives, and we can achieve that if we work together.

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