Wellness and Healthcare Informatics

Mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability. The resulting disease burden of mental illness is among the highest of all diseases. In any given year, an estimated 18.1% (43.6 million) of U.S. adults ages 18 years or older suffered from any mental illness and 4.2% (9.8 million) suffered from a seriously debilitating mental illness. Neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States, accounting for 18.7% of all years of life lost to disability and premature mortality. Moreover, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for the deaths of approximately 43,000 Americans in 2014.

• Anxiety Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Psychotic Disorders

The practice of nursing is guided by standards and definitions established by leaders of nursing in professional associations and to some extent by governmental agencies such as the Public Health Service's Bureau of Health Professions. Systematic frameworks for the practice of nursing also guide nurses in actual nursing performance. Framework for nursing practice currently in use is the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. A model to guide medical and nursing practice specific to environmental health concerns established by the California Public Health Foundation consists of three roles, investigator, educator, and advocate.

• Adult nursing
• Children’s nursing
• Learning disabilities nursing
• Mental health nursing.

Improving the well-being of mother’s infants and children is an important public health goal for the United States. Their well-being determines the health of the next generation and can help predict future public health challenges for families, communities and the health care system. The objectives of the Maternal Infant and Child Health topic area address a wide range of conditions, health behaviours, and health systems indicators that affect the health, wellness, and quality of life of women, children, and families. Pregnancy can provide an opportunity to identify existing health risks in women and to prevent future health problems for women and their children.

Biomedical and health informatics applies principles of computer and information science to the advancement of life sciences research, health professions education, public health, and patient care. This multidisciplinary and integrative field focuses on Health Information Technologies and involves the computer, cognitive, and social sciences Informatics is the science of how to use data, information and knowledge to improve human health and the delivery of health care services. Biomedical and  health informatics has built up its own zones of accentuation and methodologies that separates it from different callings and controls Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is the interdisciplinary, logical field that reviews and seeks after the compelling employments of biomedical information, data, and learning for logical request, critical thinking and basic leadership, roused by endeavours to improve human health.

• Clinical informatics
• Consumer health informatics
• Public health informatics.

Dental Informatics is a specialization within Health Informatics, a multi-disciplinary field that seeks to improve health care through the application of Health Information Technology and information science to health care delivery. This is a growing area of interest within the profession, both in academic circles and among practicing dentists more and more dental schools and dental practices are implementing Electronic Health Records systems and Health Information Exchanges are beginning a transformation in health care communications. The demands of federal and state programs to promote EHR adoption among certain health care providers are also beginning to affect dentists across the country. As a result of these changes, dentistry is engaging information technology to meet its clinical administrative research and educational needs more than ever.

• General dentist.
• Orthodontist.
• Periodontist.

Electronic health record is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centred records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. One of the key features of an Electronic Health Record is that health information can be created and managed by authorized providers in a digital format capable of being shared with other providers across more than one health care organization. Electronic Health Record are built to share information with other health care providers and organizations such as laboratories, specialists, medical imaging facilities, pharmacies, emergency facilities, and school and workplace clinics so they contain information from all clinicians involved in a patient’s care.

• Data module input system
• Patient call log
• Prescription management system
• Backup system

Prescriptions may be entered into an electronic medical record system and transmitted electronically to a pharmacy. Alternatively, a prescription may be handwritten on pre-printed prescription forms that have been assembled into pads, or printed onto similar forms using a computer printer or even on plain paper according to the circumstance. In some cases, a prescription may be transmitted from the physician to the pharmacist orally by telephone; this practice may increase the risk of medical error. The content of a prescription includes the name and address of the prescribing provider and any other legal requirement such as a registration number. Unique for each prescription is the name of the patient.

• Extinctive
• Acquisitive

While both men and women contract various conditions, some health issues affect women differently and more commonly. Furthermore, many women’s health conditions go undiagnosed and most drug trials do not include female test subjects. Even so, women bear exclusive health concerns, such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, menopause, and pregnancy. Women suffer higher heart attack deaths compared to men. Depression and anxiety exhibit more frequently among female patients. Urinary tract conditions present more often in females, and sexually transmitted diseases can cause more harm to women.

• Gynecological Health Ovarian
• Cervical Cancer.
• Depression and Anxiety.
• Reproductive Health Issues.