International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume 118 No. 18 2018, 4555-4560 ISSN: 1311-8080 (printed version); ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version) url: http://www.ijpam.eu Special Issue ijpam.eu

A New Wave In : A Brief Overview

1M J Yogesh And 2J Karthikeyan 1Research Scholar, School of Information Technology,VIT University,Vellore E-mail: [email protected] 2School of Information Technology,VIT University, Vellore E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The term Health Informatics has become a famous word in recent years because of its increasing usage day by day which has opened up many opportunities in healthcare industries and the medical field at large. Nowadays all kinds of data are being analysed for insights. In this paper, we discuss a brief overview of health informatics and usage of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and research ideas to get meaningful information from medical data. A new wave has begun to make use of health informatics in providing quality treatment and the required help for doctors which makes their and patient's lives much more meaningful.

Keywords—Health informatics; Neuro-informatics; Clinical informatics; EHRs

1.INTRODUCTION

The basic goal of Health Informatics is to take in real world medical data (tissue, molecule, patient, population) to help advance our understanding of medicine and medical practice. Health Informatics is a combination of information science and computer science within the realm of healthcare. “There are numerous current areas of research within the field of Health Informatics, including Image Informatics (e.g. Neu- roinformatics), Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, and also Translational (TBI). Research done in Health Informatics (as in all its subfields) can range from data acquisition, retrieval, storage, analytics employing data mining techniques, and so on. However, the scope of this study will be research that uses various data mining algorithms which answer various new questions throughout the various levels of health” [1]. Big data in healthcare is overwhelming not only because of its volume but also because of the diversity of data types and the speed at which it must be managed. It includes clinical data and clinical decision support systems, patient data in electronic format; machine generated/sensor data, such as from monitoring vital signatures, medical devices and social media pages of hospitals. Now all health service providers are taking extra effort in using latest technologies to provide health services and advance treatments for gaining trust from the patients.

Innovation in this field is driven by various requirements, from the most recent trend such as bottom up, which must now grow upwards and find the relevant accommodation with standardization and nationally coordinated procurement and implementation of newer systems and services, driven from the top down. Health informatics has interestingly now reached a crucial stage of collision between these two approaches, which is rather damagingly different, bottom-up and top-down evolutionary strategies. The requirement for a very comprehensive, coherent and patient related health information infrastructure which has risen to the highest level in the list of priorities of health services internationally. Investment on a national scale is now

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forthcoming in some countries such as India and from it can come benefits from:

(a) Evidence-based (specifically from doctors) health information standards and services and their evolution, over a period of time, (b) Professionalism is very much required in the management of information, across the whole healthcare enterprise/hospital, (c) Various innovative industrial processes and capacity for relevant supporting products and services, (d) Enhanced national and international collaboration on global health issues with various organizations worldwide.

Research in this area of health informatics is very much essential because we must learn, practically and by careful experimentation, about the required discipline of health informatics. There are no available and proven design blueprints for such a exhaustive infrastructure and, moreover, the target is shifting all the time which is real-time in nature with growing data collected from various sources (patient related data).

2.RELATED WORKS

Today, a large amount of data is being collected and stored, which has grown above traditional data management and analysis solutions, and it is known as big data. Roger Fyre and Mark McKenney pointed out that solutions such as Hadoop and Spark have emerged to address some of the big data problems[3]. However, spatial data presents its own challenges to storage and processing.To handle spatial data efficiently, researchers have taken various parallel processing approaches with Hadoop[4][5]. These approaches include multi-stage map and reduce algorithms, which generating on-demand indexes, and maintaining persistant indexes[6].

The past literature highlights various main approaches for deducing and innovating health data analytics platforms. The basic approach makes good use of open data analyis methods such as Mahoot [7] and open graphic APIs such as Google Charts [8]. This approach/process offers the full flexibility of featured and complex data analysis solutions using various new tools such as Mahout [7], Pig [12] and Hive [9]. The second approach/process is using a new web application framework such as Shiny [10] that offers the full functionality to rapidly develop and design innovative web-accessible interactive health analytics platforms based on the statistical package R [11]. Both approaches target data analysis methods, yet they have flaws in data integration interfaces that offer semantic interoperability between data sources. Health data originates from multiple agencies/institution/organizations, each database with local medical terms and database schemas. To generate big health data it is necessary to intergrate with these multiple health data sources which brings relief to tackle the challenge of data standardization and data integration [25].

Based on the traditional health informatics and analytics research, Raghupathi W and Raghupathi V[13] proposed an applied conceptual framework for a big data analytics, which designed regarding to the approach of data input, distributed computing, modeling and tools selection. And they pointed out four typical applications, such as queries, reports, OLAP, data mining, and visualization is an overarching theme across these applications [13][14][15]. But this work stopped at concept and didn't even layout a logical architecture. To make big data come alive, an environment or platform is needed to load and operate them.

3.A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Major exploration has given a new insight on the existing HCI (Health Care Informatics) literature to identify some specfic areas or challenges in HCI, where a specific method or process transfer

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may be useful and relatively quick to establish. We have widely explored the currently publicly available HCI data sets to identify the various areas where we can improve the existing practices which need improvement in order to make an effective use of modern data science tools and technologies that are currently in use. The data is not so different, but of different types, including patient data, disease related data, data of efficiency with treatements which are delivered, management of data related to health care, data related to customer relationships, etc.,[16]. Another attribute of variations is the levels at which data are collected: molecular, tissue, patient, and population[17]. Translation BioInformatics (TBI) makes very good use of data from the different levels, which is an essential direction for Health Care Informatics in the future [18]. Well documented, complete, similar datasets are hard to find, and they are mainly focused on particular projects and very narrow issues. “Some of the major efforts include the Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) that contains nearly 90% of medical records from NIH's Clinical Center” [19], and “the development of NIH's Biomedical Translational Research Information System” [20].

4.ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR)

A new narrative has begun in the area of health informatics where clinical care increasingly requires healthcare professionals to access patient record information that may be distributed across multiple locations, held in a variety of paper and electronic formats, and represented as mixtures of narrative, structured, unstructured, coded and multimedia entries. A person-centred (EHR) is a feasiable solution to this problem, but the challenge of providing informed clinicians of any profession or speciality with an integrated view of the complete health and healthcare history of each patient whose care has so far proved very difficult to achieve. This need is now widely recognised to be a major obstacle/challenge to the safe and effective delivery of health services, by clinical professions, by health service organisations and by governments internationally and locally. The EHR has become a very big force which has taken the centre stage in the national health informatics strategies of most European countries, and internationally. Health services and vendors are now very actively establishing new and innovative national infrastructures to enable the communication of high volumes of clinical data, and incorporating the necessary security attributes to secure these data with various mechanisms.

International research has very much highlighted the clinical, ethical and technical requirements that has to be met in order to effect this transition. There is a very urgent need for interoperability standards that can permit clinical computer systems to share/communicate various health record data whilst preserving faithfully the clinical meaning of the individual authored contributions within it. Concerns are rising about protecting the confidentiality of sensitive personal information must also be addressed if consumer/patient confidence is to be maintained when EHRs are widely accessible and used in various health service units. Smith suggests [21] that the old models of healthcare services have been associated with inefficient and non-quantifiable healthcare, favouring very costly specialised interventions over some more useful measures to provide support for patients and families at home. Information technology and huge volumes of data related to patients may enable a more patient-centred approach to healthcare: quality control measures are focused on individual patients’ needs and experiences of care; services actively involving each and every patient in their own-management and providing care close to each patient’s location and it's nearby community.

5.RESEARCH INTO EHR AND HCI

The increasing limitations of paper-based records, the potential benefits of electronic health records and the acknowledged challenges of delivering these in practice have stimulated a considerable investment in research and development over the past decade. As the EHRs are in the initial stages of implementation and usage at various hospitals and Healthcare Service Units (HSU) in India. There should be more stress given for training healthcare professionals to use EHRs on a regular basis and understand its nuances in greater depth so that it can be used in future health care applications. Ongoing research continues to explore the optimal design of EHR

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system components, and tackle new informatics challenges such as clinical genomics and Grid computing and their consequent ethical issues [22]. “The openEHR Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation and community, facilitating the creation and sharing of health records by consumers and clinicians via open-source, standards-based implementations” [23]. This openEHR should be widely adopted by all the government hospitals in India and HSU's so proper delivery of healthcare can be delivered to patients and also proper record mangement would be very useful for the future design of healthcare applications. Some of the suggested research areas that can be worked on in EHRs and Health Care Informatics (HCI) are as listed in the below [24]:

(a) Development of Open Source EHR Applications (b) Recommendation Systems for Neurological Disorders using various machine learning algorithms. (c) Providing patients with relevant awareness and support to enable good processes in their own self-management and monitoring. (d) A new culture of fact-based practice by linking results from clinical intervention with professional educational programmes and resources. (e) Improving multi-professional partnerships and clinical decision-making through ethically and legally acceptable access to patient record information and enhanced communication systems (f) Usage of Visualization tools to provide greater insights for decision makers such as government policy makers and HSU R&D Teams.

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