Question

     Describe how you can utilize healthcare informatics in the generation and discovery of new knowledge.

Answer 1

Healthcare informatics also known as health informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, biomedical informatics, clinical informatics etc.

Health care informatics is information engineering applied to the field of health care, essentially the management and use of patient healthcare information.

It is IT based medical care, which improve the quality, efficacy of medical care.

And it also helps in generation of new knowledge.

For example if the patient with new/uncommon or unfamiliar disease means, if the whole information about the patient condition in the IT base can spread the information to other. This information helps the other health care personnel to generate the new knowledge regarding that uncommon case.

So in such a way healthcare informatics helps in generation of new knowledge.