Question

You have been asked to do a guest lecture on personalized healthcare (gene analysis, custom designed pharmaceuticals etc.). One of your coworkers who does not have an informatics background asks you what qualifies you to present on this topic. What would you tell her, and in turn what connection would you make clear to your audience between healthcare informatics and personalized healthcare?

Answer 1

ANSWER :

HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS : Health care informatics is defined as using of information technology for the purpose of organizing and analyzing health records of patients, used to improve better healthcare outcomes.It deals with availability of resources, storage,using of information on health system and medicine. It is otherwise known as Health Informatics.

PERSONALIZED HEALTH CARE : Personalized health is defined as providing of medical services for various groups of people and different groups. It means providing treatment in a correct way to different groups of patient, it is also termed as Personalizes medicine, or personalized health care, or precision medicine. The decision making, planning, implementation, of health care services to people and evaluating the response of any particular disease.

Health care informatics and personalized health care both are having the similar goal of action that is providing of health care services to patient. Health care informatics deals with using of current informative technologies and educating patients on current technological information. On the other hand personalized health care informatics are based on particular problems regarding of gene analysis, etc. Hence, explaining my colleague about both the systems may gain information and improve health care perspectives.