Virtualized patient informatics

Virtualized Patient Informatics (VPI) refers to the Health Informatics (HI) process by which patient information is accessed via computer systems from any location and at anytime. VPI models the area of health informatics in a modern, patient centric way.

Delivery of healthcare services is in a transition phase because of globalization and changes in informatics and technology. Informatics combines the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems.

Health Informatics (HI) is the intersection of information science, computer science and health care, and deals with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine. Virtualized Patient Informatics (VPI) refers to the HI process by which patient information is accessed via computer systems from any location and at anytime. In order to be successful, VPI must display several characteristics, including without limitation security of confidential patient information; accessibility of relevant patient data by properly authorized healthcare professionals; seamless integration and subsequent communication between all databases containing relevant patient data rapidly and comprehensively, thus enabling a caregiver to diagnose and treat patients in as efficient (efficiency) a manner as possible.

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