GCU Informatics in Healthcare Precision Medicine Discussion & PPT
Objectives:
- Explore the role of informatics in the development of personalized or precision medicine.
- Discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing personalized or precision medicine.
- Discuss the impact of population and public health initiatives and their relationship to personalized or precision medicine.
- Examine how personalized or precision medicine can impact data collection and storage.
Resources
- Read “Acute Pain Management in Patients With Drug Dependence Syndrome,” by Quinlan and Cox, from Pain Reports (2017).
- Read “Precision Medicine Enters the Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships,” by Dimond, from Health Management Technology (2018).
- Read “The Forthcoming Era of Precision Medicine,” by Gamulin, from Acta Medica Academica, (2016).
- Read “Unbroken HIT Advancement in 2018,” by Wider, from Health Management Technology (2018).
- Read “Precision Lifestyle Medicine: A New Frontier in the Science of Behavior Change and Population Health,” by Ma, Rosas, and Lv, from American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2016).
- Read Chapter 15 in Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.
- Read “Technology and Telemedicine Advancements in Healthcare Boosting Improved Patient Care,” from PR Newswire (2017).
- Read “Unbroken HIT Advancement in 2018,” by Wider, from Health Management Technology (2018).
- Read “Acute Pain Management in Patients With Drug Dependence Syndrome,” by Quinlan and Cox, from Pain Reports (2017).
Discussions
Discussion 1
Discuss how informatics and data collection help to create better systems that incorporate new technologies and care delivery models. Other than within the field of personalized medicine, how do you see informatics supporting innovation in health care?
Discussion 2
Discuss how personalized medicine can create an environment where patients feel comfortable self-reporting and how personalized medicine can aid the provider in creating a trusting relationship. Explain how a Christian worldview could guide interactions with patients using personalized medicine.
Assignment
Personalized or Precision Medicine Presentation
The purpose of this assignment is to examine the importance of informatics and evolving trends in personalized or precision medicine.
As a health informaticist, create a 10-slide presentation to your clinical staff discussing the following:
- Discuss the role of personalized or precision medicine and the advantages and disadvantages of personalized or precision medicine in the delivery of health care.
- Discuss how the fields of personalized or precision medicine and informatics have mutually affected one another.
- Discuss the importance of creating personalized or precision medicine applications that collect accurate data and how those data are communicated to various locations and providers.
- Describe how personalized or precision medicine supports the aging population and population heath.
- Describe current gaps and challenges in personalized or precision medicine and informatics. How could the future of health informatics evolve over time to respond to those gaps?
