The Global Impact of Health IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/30 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Vanessa Carter (@_FaceSA) on the topic of “The Global Impact of Health IT”. Global health pandemics like antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance are among the most critical issues to tackle and in future will require robust, harmonious data surveillance systems along with mass co-operation between the animal, human and environmental health sectors across every country [1]. This is known as One Health [2]. WHO initiatives like GLASS (Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System) have been implemented to work towards these goals [3]. To help understand the topic of antibiotic resistance, let me start by saying that antibiotics treat bacterial infections whereas antimicrobials are a much broader term used to describe medicines that treat other types of microorganisms that cause infection. These other types of microorganisms include parasites (e.g. Malaria), fungi (e.g. Candida) and viruses (e.g. AIDS). All of these microbial infections are categorised as Communicable Diseases or Infectious Diseases. Antibiotics fall under the antimicrobial umbrella and they kill a microorganism known as bacteria. Antimicrobials, and particularly antibiotics are the cornerstone of modern medicine because they are used in all areas of disease treatments where the immune system is compromised including HIV/AIDS and Tub...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: #HITsm Healthcare Healthcare AI HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Antibiotic Resistance GLASS Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System Global Health One Health Vanessa Carter Source Type: blogs