Assignment 1 Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
The impact of informatics on society over the past few decades has aided in transcending the boundaries of healthcare, education, communication and security systems across the world. There is a wide variety of definitions for informatics, it is often called as the science of information, but has a much broader meaning to it. The University of Sussex (n.d.) defines informatics as the study of storage, transformation and communication of information. Social informatics can be referred as “the study of social aspects of computerization, including the role of information technology in social and organizational change, the use of information technologies in social contexts and the way the social …show more content…
In other words, the theorem suggests that person working combined with an information resource is better than that person who isn’t. The four areas he focuses on are health care, education, research and administration activities. The theorem illustrates that informatics is more about people than technology. Resources must be informative as well as correct. Although the article struggles defining the exact definition of biomedical informatics, it gives us the general definition defining that informatics is the science of information where information is data plus meaning. It also says that primarily medical reports and management was all paper based. Many papers were published on improvement of medical reports and how data would be handled. And compared to earlier days medical reports fixed on computers have made life easier in both …show more content…
The data can be accessed from any part of the world and can be used according to the need. We can also say that certain class groups have benefitted by bioinformatics. Moreover, two articles summarized above have stated that in present the health records of every patient is stored in one place and physicians can access it give appropriate treatment to the patients. This has lead to having data in more organized and systematic manner. In addition, data’s should have a standardized language so that they can be productively used and also they should have a user-friendly interface. However, for any individual to interpret data’s that are available they need to be trained and skilled. If this is not the case then wrong decisions and misuse of information can happen which can hamper the lives of patients. Lastly, these milestones form a great part of our society and helps in creating relationships with the people from around the
Introduction
The impact of informatics on society over the past few decades has aided in transcending the boundaries of healthcare, education, communication and security systems across the world. There is a wide variety of definitions for informatics, it is often called as the science of information, but has a much broader meaning to it. The University of Sussex (n.d.) defines informatics as the study of storage, transformation and communication of information. Social informatics can be referred as “the study of social aspects of computerization, including the role of information technology in social and organizational change, the use of information technologies in social contexts and the way the social …show more content…
In other words, the theorem suggests that person working combined with an information resource is better than that person who isn’t. The four areas he focuses on are health care, education, research and administration activities. The theorem illustrates that informatics is more about people than technology. Resources must be informative as well as correct. Although the article struggles defining the exact definition of biomedical informatics, it gives us the general definition defining that informatics is the science of information where information is data plus meaning. It also says that primarily medical reports and management was all paper based. Many papers were published on improvement of medical reports and how data would be handled. And compared to earlier days medical reports fixed on computers have made life easier in both …show more content…
The data can be accessed from any part of the world and can be used according to the need. We can also say that certain class groups have benefitted by bioinformatics. Moreover, two articles summarized above have stated that in present the health records of every patient is stored in one place and physicians can access it give appropriate treatment to the patients. This has lead to having data in more organized and systematic manner. In addition, data’s should have a standardized language so that they can be productively used and also they should have a user-friendly interface. However, for any individual to interpret data’s that are available they need to be trained and skilled. If this is not the case then wrong decisions and misuse of information can happen which can hamper the lives of patients. Lastly, these milestones form a great part of our society and helps in creating relationships with the people from around the