Application of Health Informatics in providing Healthcare

What exactly is health informatics? Health informatics is a term that

describes the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of healthcare information
to foster better collaboration among a patient’s various healthcare providers.
Health informatics plays a critical role in the push toward  healthcare reform.
Health informatics is an evolving specialization that links information
technology, communications and healthcare to improve the quality and
safety of patient care. Health informatics applies informatics concepts,
theories, and practices to real-life situations to achieve better health
outcomes. This includes collecting, storing, analyzing, and presenting
data in a digital format.

Therefore, health informatics that is shown (in slide no. 37)

represents a connection from information technology to its application
regarding the delivery of health care services. There shows that starting
from running different laboratory tests, then through the use of
computer all accurate results are stored through cloud. Lastly, saved
information were distributed and presented to other smaller sections that
needs the result to provide better healthcare to the patient.

As new technologies in providing health care emerge, those stored

data were saved and analyzed and in order for the medical professional
to provide quality patient care, an accurate results were also presented
and its availability are given. But in terms of its availability, the
goodness in health informatics is it still provide privacy for each of the
patient. It is also important for the medical professionals to understand
the use of the health informatics and its application across organizations
/ each hospital departments.
 Importance and Application of BIO-Printing

Bioprinting is an additive manufacturing process where biomaterials such as

cells and growth factors are combined to create tissue-like structures that imitate
natural tissues. In essence, bioprinting works in a similar way to conventional 3D
printing. A digital model becomes a physical 3D object layer-by-layer. In this
instance, however, a living cell suspension is utilized instead of a thermoplastic or
a resin.

The greatest importance of bioprinting lies in the resulting tissue-like

structures that mimic the actual micro- and macro-environment of human tissues
and organs. This is critical in drug testing and clinical trials, with the potential, for
example, to drastically reduce the need for animal trials. When living tissues and
organs need not come from humans, this budding technology offers other massive
opportunities. One example is testing treatment for diseases using artificially
affected tissues.

Organ replacement is the main objective, but tissue repair is also possible in

the meantime. With bioink, it’s much easier to solve problems on a patient-specific
level, promoting simpler operations. A Bioink is the material used to produce
engineered (artificial) live tissue using 3D printing technology. It can be composed
only of cells, but in most cases, an additional carrier material that envelops the
cells is also added. This carrier material is usually a biopolymer gel, which acts as
a 3D molecular scaffold. Cells attach to this gel, and this enables them to spread,
grow and proliferate.

The bioprinting has its main application areas. First are printing of artificial
organs for surgical transplant or implants and helps to solve organ-related issues.
Bone tissue regeneration as well as prosthetics and dental applications. Printing of
skin cells onto burn wounds (skin grafting). Then beyond implants, scientists are
researching how to 3D print actual bone replacements (orthopedics). Also, (in
medication and lab equipment) it is used to develop customized drugs through
printing chemicals and organic compounds.

To sum it all, bioprinting has a lot of usage and its main application towards
providing healthcare. It is clearly introduced that bioprinting is a newly emerge
technology that offers a lot of opportunities. It is a new way in treating diseases
and other health related problems, lastly it could be used for clinical trials therefore
it doesn’t need to try unto animals.
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Mashambanhaka, F. (2019, September 12). What Is 3D Bioprinting? ? Simply

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