Abstract
The health care industry has generated large amounts of complex and diverse data, driven by record keeping, compliance and regulatory requirements and patient care, however in absence of proper management and judicious use of health informatics and data generated through it, the vital information is not being used for the benefit of patients. Studieshave shown that costs can be dramatically reduced in health care by using health informatics and data collected over long periods of time, like patient's history, recurrence of pathologies, genetic trends, in heritance, and many other statistical tools, which can be used for huge benefits of patients. But all these require huge funds, proper training, judicious and honest use of such collected information, brilliant research - updated physicians, experts and managers can make wonders in health care delivery, benefitting both the government and the patients by synergistic use of health information system generated data. The literature indicates that these systems and their implementation is limited and at times spasmodic in developing as well as low-income countries, largely because of the financial and implementation challenges these countries face. These challenges are likely due to technological, organizational, financial or human resources barriers. With no signs of improvement, despite several governments claiming to soothe balms on the self-inflicted injuries, the health insurance sector, NGOs, WHO, IMF, World Bank and other benevolent rich nations will have to come together to fulfil the future vision of Health For All especially in poor and developing countries. To tackle the problems of corruption, malpractices in health care where health informatics data in such situations can be exploited for fraud and malpractices, better role of governments, sincere controlling and regulatory authorities in association with International Agencies is recommended to streamline these issues. Data analytics and applications in healthcare are at a nascent stage of development, but rapid advances in platforms and tools with proper management and control can accelerate their maturing process in developing nations as well.