Health informatics and its contribution to health sectors

Title

Health informatics and its contribution to health sectors

Creator

George G.; Saravanakrishnan V.; Agarwal A.

Description

In most developed countries, healthcare sectors take more than 10% of the GDP, and it is one of the most significant and most rapidly growing sectors globally. With such growth of the healthcare department, data management becomes challenging; a robust platform helps to address these challenges. Health Informatics (HI) is an upcoming development, an interdisciplinary field in healthcare sectors; it combines the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare software, which helps boost the overall operational efficiency of the healthcare departments. These AI algorithms integrated into IoT devices help acquire, store, retrieve, and use health and medical-related data. Patient data are enormous in healthcare sectors, and it is required for various purposes by hospital administrators, insurance agents, doctors, nurses, and other health departments. Accessing and managing these datasets often becomes challenging; HI is one of those innovations that has helped address these challenges to a large extent. The chapter discusses informatics, related definitions, HI, and its relation with other disciplines. The chapter also provides an educational overview of the evolution of HI, different HI technologies, benefits and challenges of HI to its various stakeholders. It ends with some thoughts on HI's future growth. The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2023. All rights reserved.

Source

Innovations in Healthcare Informatics: From interoperability to data analysis, pp. 67-106.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Institution of Engineering and Technology

Subject

Artificial intelligence; Health informatics; Health sector; Internet of Things

Coverage

George G., Department of Commerce, Christ (Deemed to be University), India; Saravanakrishnan V., Department of Commerce, Christ (Deemed to be University), India; Agarwal A., Adelaide Business School, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-183953459-1; 978-183953458-4

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1049/pbhe041e_ch3

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