Question

1. Compare and contrast the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics. Where do they overlap and where do they differ?
2. Describe how nanomaterials might affect your own life in the near future.

Answer 1

Compare and contrast the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics. Where do they overlap and where do they differ?

Compare the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics

EHR DIRECTIONS	PERSONAL HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS
EHR is an electronic application , that originates with and is controlled by doctors	personal healthcare informatics is an electronic application, can be generated by physicians, patients, hospitals, pharmacies, and other sources but is controlled by the patient.
EHRs contain information from all the clinicians involved in a patient’s care and all authorized clinicians involved in a patient’s care can access the information to provide care to that patient.	Personal health informatics contain the same types of information as EHRs—diagnoses, medications, immunizations, family medical histories, and provider contact information—but are designed to be set up, accessed, and managed by patients.
EHRs also share information with other health care providers, such as laboratories and specialists. EHRs follow patients – to the specialist, the hospital, the nursing home, or even across the country.	Patients can use this to maintain and manage their health information in a private, secure, and confidential environment.
EHRs are built to share information with other health care providers and organizations such as laboratories, medical imaging facilities, pharmacies, emergency facilities, and school and workplace clinics – so they contain information from all clinicians involved in a patient's care..	Personal healthcare informatics can include information from a variety of sources including clinicians, home monitoring devices, and patients themselves
EHR is a complete health record under the custodianship of a health care provider(s	Personal healthcare informatics is a complete or partial health record under the custodianship of a person(s) (e.g. a patient or family member)

Compare and contrast the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics. Where do they overlap and where do they differ?

Compare the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics

EHR DIRECTIONS	PERSONAL HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS
EHR is an electronic application , that originates with and is controlled by doctors	personal healthcare informatics is an electronic application, can be generated by physicians, patients, hospitals, pharmacies, and other sources but is controlled by the patient.
EHRs contain information from all the clinicians involved in a patient’s care and all authorized clinicians involved in a patient’s care can access the information to provide care to that patient.	Personal health informatics contain the same types of information as EHRs—diagnoses, medications, immunizations, family medical histories, and provider contact information—but are designed to be set up, accessed, and managed by patients.
EHRs also share information with other health care providers, such as laboratories and specialists. EHRs follow patients – to the specialist, the hospital, the nursing home, or even across the country.	Patients can use this to maintain and manage their health information in a private, secure, and confidential environment.
EHRs are built to share information with other health care providers and organizations such as laboratories, medical imaging facilities, pharmacies, emergency facilities, and school and workplace clinics – so they contain information from all clinicians involved in a patient's care..	Personal healthcare informatics can include information from a variety of sources including clinicians, home monitoring devices, and patients themselves
EHR is a complete health record under the custodianship of a health care provider(s	Personal healthcare informatics is a complete or partial health record under the custodianship of a person(s) (e.g. a patient or family member)

Contrast the trends of EHR directions and personal healthcare informatics

• · Both EHR and Personal healthcare informatics are electronic application
• · Both are often described as a person-centric health record,
• · EHR and Personal healthcare informatics holds all or a portion of the relevant health information about that person over their lifetime.
• · Personal health records can be linked to electronic health records or stand alone

  Describe how nanomaterials might affect your own life in the near future

  · Nanomaterials is used in many areas of human endeavors including industry, agriculture, business, medicine and public health. Environmental exposure to nanomaterials is inevitable as nanomaterials become part of our daily life, and as a result, nanotoxicity may be occurs .

  · Nanomaterials are rapidly becoming a part of our daily life in the form of cosmetics, food packaging, drug delivery systems, therapeutics, biosensors, and others. Since their size scale is similar to that of biological macromolecules and due to their antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanomaterials are extensively used for a number of commercial products such as wound dressing, detergents or antimicrobial coatings

  · Nanomaterials   are toxicity to humans and the environment.

  · Biodegraded nanoparticles may accumulate within cells and lead to intracellular changes such as disruption of organelle integrity or gene alternations.

  · Given the increasing rates for nanomaterial production, the potential for their release in the environment and subsequent effects on ecosystem health is becoming an increasing concern that needs to be addressed

  · it is necessary first to understand the fate and behavior of manufactured nanomaterials in the environment.

  · Manufactured nanomaterials will enter the environment through intentional releases as well as unintentional releases such as atmospheric emissions and solid or liquid waste streams from production facilities.

  · Nanomaterials reaching in the land have the potential to contaminate soil, and migrate into surface and ground waters. Particles in solid wastes, waste water effluents, direct discharges, or accidental spillages can be transported to aquatic systems by wind or rainwater runoff.

  · Due to the very small size of engineered nanomaterials, inhalation exposure can potentially occur to airborne particles composed of nanomaterials covering a size range from a few nanometers to several micrometers in diamete