Advancements and integration: a comprehensive review of health informatics and its diverse subdomains with a focus on technological trends

Damar M., Yüksel İ., Çetinkol A. E., Aydın Ö., Küme T.

HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY, cilt.14, sa.4, ss.1-14, 2024 (ESCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s12553-024-00872-5
  • Dergi Adı: HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, EMBASE, INSPEC
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-14
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Advancements and integration: a comprehensive review of health informatics and its diverse subdomains with a focus on technological trends

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to comprehensively assess the field of health informatics and its subdomains, addressing a gap in the literature. The primary objective is to provide insights into the integration of expertise from various disciplines and explore the impact of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, and virtual reality on healthcare processes. The research question queries the current status of health informatics and how the latest technological developments affect health informatics and its subfields.

Method:Conducted through an extensive literature review, this research explores medical informatics, nursing informatics, pharmacy informatics, dentistry informatics, biomedical informatics, bioinformatics, public health informatics, clinical informatics, and primary care informatics.

Results:  Findings highlight a comprehensive understanding of health informatics and its subdomains, emphasizing the interdisciplinary integration of expertise. The study also reveals the significant impact of new and hype technologies on various health informatics domains.

Conclusions: Filling a literature gap, this study provides valuable insights into the current state of health informatics. It underscores the interdisciplinary nature of the field and emphasizes the profound influence of emerging technologies on the evolving landscape of health informatics. The study thoroughly examines nine specific informatics fields within health informatics, revealing that recent years have seen a collective influence of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning across these domainsThe findings strongly suggest that courses on these emerging current technologies be integrated into undergraduate curricula within health informatics education.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence · Health informatics · Medical informatics · Nursing informatics · Pharmacy informatics