Formulate a paper addressing trends in health informatics using the address the following prompts:
Discuss the benefits and challenges of simulation technology as a technology trend.
Given future directional trends in informatics discussed in Chapter 36 of your text such as nanotechnology, predictive analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), select a trend that you view to be most important to our society today. Provide a rationale for your choice.
Analyze the Health Information Technology Governance Activities and Processes summery discussed in Chapter 29 of your text (Box 29.1). Reflecting on your University of Arizona Global Campus major of study, discuss how an organizational leader in health care and/or health and human services would use these activities to prioritize informatics projects related to implementing an informatics trend discussed in Chapter 36.
The Trends in Informatics Paper
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BOX 29.1Health Information Technology Governance Activities and Processes•Formal processes for proposing new projects requiring healthIT resources (e.g., formal submission templates outliningmajor aspects of a project such as purpose, scope, estimatedtimelines, and resources; seeChapter 17for details about pro-ject management)•Planning future directions and investments•Evaluating and prioritizing potential projects; evaluating,approving, and prioritizing changes to the EHR system (e.g.,the introduction of new clinical decision support alerts andreminders)•Approving funding•Monitoring return on investment for projects
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