INTRODUCTIONITIs the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data , often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

HEALTHIs the sate of being free from any illness or injury. Or a persons mental and physical condition.

IT and HEALTH are infact like 2 converging roads which can ultimately be linked

IT has revolutionalised status of living and left a scarring impact on or day 2 day life.This today’s world has become a mechanical and materialistic one. Machines have become our greatest pals and indeed our third hand.Loads of paper files have been replaced by a single hard disc as every office has been seen turning into more efficient high tech ones. This shortens the queue outside service windows.

So, in a nutshell IT has anyways made lives simpler.

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Health information technology (HIT) Is “the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information,data, and knowledge for communication and decision making”

Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. Health information technology (HIT) is in general increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system

BROAD AND CONSISTENT UTILISATION OF HIT will :

•Improve health care quality or effectiveness;•Increase health care productivity or efficiency;•Prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness;•Reduce health care costs;•Increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes;•Decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time;•Extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals; •Expand access to affordable care.

Interoperable HIT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bringmany public health benefits including:•Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country;•Improved tracking of chronic disease management; and•Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality Information that can be compared.

TYPES OF TECHNOLOGIESELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD

ORELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD

EMRs can reduce several types of errors, including those related to prescription drugs, to preventive care, and to tests and procedures. Recurring alerts remind clinicians of intervals for preventive care and track referrals and test results. Clinical guidelines for disease management have a demonstrated benefit when accessible within the electronic record during the process of treating the patient

COMPUTERISED PROVIDER (PHYSICIAN) ORDER ENTRY

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) (also sometimes referred to as Computerized Provider Order Entry) (also sometimes referred to as Computerized Provider Order Management ) is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her care. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the medical staff or to the departments (pharmacy, laboratory, or radiology) responsible for fulfilling the order. CPOE decreases delay in order completion, reduces errors related to handwriting or transcription, allows order entry at the point of care or off-site, provides error-checking for duplicate or incorrect doses or tests, and simplifies inventory and posting of charges. CPOE is a form of patient management software.[1]

HOW IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHANGING HEALTHCARE

It's not such a surprise these days when you visit your doctor's office and your physician uses an iPad to take notes and store your medical records electronically. It makes sense, since managing modern-day medical information involves a great deal of effort and resources.This tech shift has spurred the field of "health informatics," which describes the intersection of healthcare, information technology and business. The infographic below — by the University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Online Masters of Health Informatics program — breaks down and describes health informatics and the mashup of technology and healthcare.

According to the UIC program, health informatics systems can streamline medical care, reduce repeated or duplicate tests/procedures and automate manual processes. The UIC program suggests electronic health records can improve patient education: you can more easily get direct access to your records, you stay involved/informed in your healthcare and it could help you to potentially manage your own care.But it's not all rosy: some doctors say electronic health records negatively affect care and some believe it makes interaction impersonal. A more substantial verdict may come as larger portions of the U.S. healthcare system shift to electronic records. Part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pushed incentives to digitize health records, and the U.S. government reportedly hopes most Americans have electronic health records by 2014.

 

BIOINFORMATICS

Bioinformatics is the application of Information Technology

to develop and improve on methods for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing biological data. A major activity in bioinformatics is to develop software tools to generate useful

biological knowledge and make use of Information

The term bioinformatics was coined by Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper in 1978 for the study of informatic processes in biotic system. Its primary use since at least the late 1980s has been in genomics and genetics, particularly in those areas of genomics involving large-scale DNA sequencing.Bioinformatics now entails the creation and advancement of databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the management and analysis of biological data.

Over the past few decades rapid developments in genomic and other molecular research technologies and developments in information technologies have combined to produce a tremendous amount of information related to molecular biology. It is the name given to these mathematical and computing approaches used to glean understanding of biological processes.

Common activities in bioinformatics include mapping and analyzing DNA and protein sequences, aligning different DNA and protein sequences to compare them and creating and viewing 3-D models of protein structures.The primary goal of bioinformatics is to increase the understanding of biological processes. What sets it apart from other approaches, however, is its focus on developing and applying computationally intensive techniques (e.g., pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning algorithms, and visualization) to achieve this goal. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, drug design, drug discovery, protein structure alignment,protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, genome-wide association studies and the modeling of evolution.

CURRENT STATUS OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT and the Internet have had a significant impact on consumers. Numerouswebsites have made health information more available topatients, thereby strengthening their role in care decisions.The Internet also helps consumers choose providers byallowing insurers and others (including Medicare) to postinformation on providers including, in some instances,comparative quality information.This section provides detailed information on twosettings—hospitals and physicians’ offices—that havereceived considerable policy attention. Further MedPACwork may focus on other settings, such as post-acute care,as well as on the impact of IT and the Internet onconsumers. This section also looks at linking health careproviders through an information infrastructure, or“interoperable” systems that allow communication amongthe IT applications used by different providers.

CONCLUSIONAs stated earlier IT and HEALTH have become an integral part of human life without any disparity. Whether rich or poor everyone is somewhere being benefitted by the revolution brought up by IT sector to ease the health sector.

Whether a countryman or a villager , no one is left untouched by the magic of IT.

IT is slowly reaching every nook and corner of the country and has been transforming lives.

Today the world has become a global village

And we the 21st century people are integral parts of this village.

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