Question

1. How can Bioinformatics be used in a hospital and/or healthcare setting? 2. What is the difference between bioinformatics and health informatics, how are they similar?

Answer 1

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Use of bioinformatics in a healthcare setting is the mapping of human genes under the human genome project to get a complete list of human gene products leading to the development of new drugs and gene therapy for single gene diseases.

Bioinformatics tools are accessed in certain clinical situations for aiding in diagnosis and treatment plans.

An example of the application of bioinformatics is the development of novel designer targeted drugs such as imatinib mesylate in therapeutics.

Health informatics is basically focused on the collection, processing, and analysis of health data, information. While bioinformatics is all about using computational methods in biology, and medicine such as screening for genetic disease and developing targets for drugs.