Informatics for Meeting the Challenges to Public Health

Authors

  • IS Editors Centre for Informatics Research and Development

Abstract

Innumerable public health catastrophes caused by environmental degradation are presently threatening human existence. Meeting these challenges requires more transparency, accessibility and reliability of medical information to help policymakers take informed decisions.  Informatics offers new pathways for medical discovery and investigation. Specialized branches of informatics related to health and biomedicine such as Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Informatics have emerged. They use computer and communication technology to improve medical research and development as well as health care systems by reducing costs, increasing patient safety and improving quality of services.

Published

2018-01-19