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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

At scale Apple should start supporting the training of Medics so that they can help the Patients and Carers who they have now empowered with information ( plenty of tips about that in the mHealth for Healthcare Professionals course that I developed for the Healthcare Informatics Society ).

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Meet the modern healthcare CIO: A business leader that is casting off their traditional IT role

David Chou

But with electronic health records nearly ubiquitous, the next charges are connectivity, interoperability, optimization and innovating on top of the digitized platform to further strategic goals. "We're "Gone are the days of tactical and project management expertise," Hanna said. "To