Healthcare Informatics Technology Trends

 Introduction The application of information technology in healthcare has persisted for several decades, following the onset of computerized healthcare programs in the 1950s. There have been progressive technological developments that have led to the information technology trends that are emerging and commonly used in healthcare practice today. These developments correlate to biological discoveries which have been made over the past decades, suggesting wide possibilities for the healthcare field (Shoba, 2020). In response to existing challenges, the growing technology has been a vehicle leveraged by the discoveries to improve patient care. The discoveries triggering healthcare technology expansion include the application of artificial intelligence, electronic health records, and nanoinformatics. Nanoinformatics - Overview For a functional definition, nanoinformatics refers to the application of biomedical informatics and their related techniques to process and analyze data regarding nanoparticles. The data includes the physicochemical and functional properties of nanoparticles and how they can be applied in different situations in nanomedicine.Nanoparticles are small forms of matter, named after their size. Most of them range from one to a hundred nanometers. They are invisible to the naked human eye and can only be detected under microscopic environments (Moffatt, 2015). However, the effect of these particles on their macro counterparts is usually tremendous and the effects are easily identified. During their applications, nanoparticles are used in atomic or molecular forms. This makes them have a very large surface area to volume ratio. As a result, they undergo typical quantum effects which makes them release tremendous energy. The energy effects bear unexpected physical and chemical results, unusual for their bulk materials