Healthcare Informatics Technology Trends

Here’s an interesting article published by Healthcare Informatics Online. The authors present what they believe are nine technology trends in health care informatics.

1. Clinical Decision Support
2. Consumer-Driven Healthcare
3. CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
4. Disease Surveillance
5. National Standards
6. Open Source
7. Security
8. Web Services
9. Work flow Automation

It’s interesting to see this list of trends compared with the compilation of predicted eHealth developments presented by the IPTS Report.

Regardless of the predictions, I think the most important steps are the ones we are taking now in terms of building the foundation(s) for future development.