Empowering Patients through Health Informatics: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Abstract

By granting access to health records, empowering patients through connection and strining to improve health outcomes, health informatics plays a vital role. This article examines the growth of patient empowerment in healthcare, showing how important technologies such as electronic health records (EHRs), mobile health (mHealth) apps, wearable devices and telemedicine platforms have become. They allow patients to handle their health, talk with doctors more openly and make the right choices. Even though the advantages exist, digital inequalities, worries about private data and compatibility issues still need attention for proper and equal healthcare. New trends, for example, precision medicine, blockchain and artificial intelligence, may lead to better personalized healthcare and more choices for patients. As a result, health informatics helps rebuild the patient-provider partnership, opening doors for more personal, efficient and patient-friendly healthcare systems.