Health informatics entails constant change leading to new avenues for healthcare and other disciplines

Health informatics entails constant change leading to new avenues for healthcare and other disciplines. As an interdisciplinary field, nursing relies on the sharing of information, data, and analytics to make informed decisions. These decisions are based on data and evidence with careful scrutiny and review, while maintaining live assessment of the patient or population to compare data. Societal trends continue to influence the situation of evolving digital health, which affects stakeholder decisions to improve healthcare based on predictive analytics. The nurse will remain one of the key stakeholders gathering the right evidence to influence decision making. In this course, we have reviewed key concepts such as health information and complications for health informatics, technical trends in IT, cybersecurity, clinical trends using data collection, instruments to measure data, and improvement of the user experience.

To understand the future of health informatics, nurses and providers must be aware of societal trends and concerns. Healthcare costs are one extremely vital component of the healthcare system, specifically total costs. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS, 2021) report, projected annual growth costs are projected to be 5.4% for 2019-2028 reaching up to $6.2 trillion (about $19,000 per person in the US) (about $19,000 per person in the US). Three main factors contribute to these predictions, which include aging populations, increasing numbers of patients with chronic diseases, and predicted shortage of healthcare providers. This will require institutions to promote the use of cost-benefit analysis rather than just listing charges randomly, thus allowing stakeholders to capture a better picture of how to reduce costs and manage the future.

With this in mind, choose one of the following topics and answer the key questions using two references.

TOPICS

• The Internet of Things
• Rural vs urban internet use levels
• Healthcare and wellcare data model
• Nanotechnology products
• Nanorobots and nanobots
• Tiny chips
• Data mining

QUESTIONS

• What is the topic you have chosen to explore?
• What will it do in the future?
• How will it help global digital health?