Health Informatics

 
 
Informatics or medical informatics is a new field of knowledge that deals with cognitive tasks and the processing of information and communication related to the practice, education and research of medicine. Informatics is an area of interdisciplinary disciplines at its core that draws from medicine, computer science, artificial intelligence, information science, cognitive psychology and others. Pioneering researchers did not receive training in informatics in particular, and this is the case with all the fields of cross-discipline at the beginning, but over time, specialized associations (such as the International Medical Informatics Association) have emerged. I have a high degree in informatics from several universities.
 
When digital computers became available in the 1950s, medical practice began by automating non-clinical activities (such as billing), switching paper tables with computers and software, and even automating the activities of cognitive physicians (eg, computer diagnosis). Doctors have been raised in this perspective, that computers can cope with problems caused by exponential growth of medical information by serving as auxiliary brains.
 
The field of informatics is rooted in these early attempts, and continues to trace the problems of original research as well as to examine various topics related to information and medicine, which are constantly multiplying.
 
Information poverty is one of the main problems facing healthcare professionals in the Third World. In particular, information technology places promising hopes for solving this problem. For example, doctors in some hospitals in Jordan and Saudi Arabia benefit from the experience of their colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mayo University Hospital, respectively, through direct communications that save the cost of traveling abroad.
 
While this latter application is rather expensive, others are less expensive. CD-ROM libraries provide developing countries with the latest medical developments to relieve them of the cost or delay of shipping tons of paper. Doctors in many African countries research Medline, ask questions answered by the world’s leading medical centers, and consult fellow physicians around the world via email. This is done through an earth station connected to a low-altitude satellite owned by the nonprofit SatelLife, which uses communication technologies to help doctors in developing countries. By employing less than $ 15,000, Zambia has been able to acquire computers and software for this project and to train a team of staff. The Central Station itself has been connected, using local telecommunication wires, to the Ministry of Health and 20 provincial hospitals to serve the entire country.