How Artificial Intelligence is Impacting the Health Care Field
Technological innovations today — regardless of industry — are largely intended to save time, increase efficiency and ultimately improve outcomes for businesses and consumers.
Health Care Informatics Blog
What is Medical Informatics?
The science of medical informatics is rapidly transforming the world of medicine — producing new insights for improving the quality and cost of care, new discoveries about causes and cures of disease, and new career opportunities for people interested in working in he…
Health Care Innovations from the Big 4 Tech Companies: Investing in Health Informatics
With its incredible potential to use data to transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of care, the science of informatics continues to drive health care innovation.
What is a Health Data Analyst?
As big data and the science of informatics continue to drive performance improvement efforts throughout the health care system, the role of health care data analyst has moved from behind the scenes to center stage.
What’s the Difference Between a Master’s in Health Informatics and a Master’s in Nursing Informatics?
The recent explosion in the field of nursing informatics has created career advancement opportunities for experienced nurses that did not exist as recently as a decade ago.
Health Informatics vs. Health Information Management: Key Differences and Similarities
What is the difference between health information management and health informatics?
The answer to this question is actually evolving as new technology continues to change both the way health care is delivered and the methods used to ensure that vital health records are…
What is Health Care Analytics?
Can big data save lives? Advocates of the emerging field of health care analytics certainly believe it can.
Big data analytics is transforming the way organizations do business in dozens of industries.
What is Clinical Informatics?
With all of the excitement around medical advancements — and health care industry job opportunities — made possible by the field of health informatics, it’s no wonder that so many people find themselves asking: What is clinical informatics? And how does it dif…
MHA vs. MPH vs. MS in Health Informatics: Which Master’s Degree is Best for You?
Health care is one of the healthiest job markets in the U.S. today, with an estimated 2.4 million new jobs expected to be added by 2026.
What Skills Do You Need for a Successful Career in Health Care Informatics?
Thanks in large part to evolving technology, the field of health care informatics is growing rapidly.
5 Exciting Health Care Informatics Projects
Thanks to revolutionary technological advancements, modern medicine is poised for transformation from a “disease industry” to a “scientific wellness industry,” according to a report in healthcareitnews.com.
Health Information Technology Jobs — Salary & Job Info
The field of health information technology is experiencing explosive growth and offers tremendous earning potential (average health IT salary: $91,000, according to one survey).
Top Health Care IT Trends for 2018: Data Security, Collaboration, Patient Focus
How the Digital Revolution is Changing Health Care
Protecting data, collaborating to tackle new challenges and staying patient-focused as technology continues to drive change: These are the top concerns emerging from a health information technology survey of executives …
Confused? Health Informatics Explained [Definition + Jobs and Salary Information]
What is Health Informatics?
Health care informatics is, at a very basic level, the use of data and information technology to meet the quadruple aim goals of health care: improved clinical outcomes, lower cost of care, improved experiences for both patients and providers…
Why a Career in Health Care Informatics is Ideal for Foreign Medical Graduates
Medical Experience Plus Master’s Degree: A Prescription for Success
It goes without saying that becoming a doctor in the United States requires an incredible amount of hard work, talent, training and perseverance.
How Health Informatics is Shaping Future of Health Information Management
The history of health information management in this country dates back to at least 1928, when the organization now known as the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) was founded to improve the quality of health records kept by the nation’s hospit…
Your Guide to Health Information Technology Terminology
It’s no secret that health information technology is revolutionizing the world of health care — producing dramatic changes both in the ways that physicians and institutions practice health care and in the ways that patients (now increasingly regarded as “consumers…
USD Master’s Degree in Health Informatics Earns HIMSS Approval
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has named the University of San Diego a HIMSS Approved Education Partner — a distinction that credits USD’s Master of Science in Health Care Informatics degree program with meet…
Health Information Technology Careers: Forecast Looks Bright
In the age of big data, numbers help tell the story of how technology is transforming health care — for example, $100 billion.
Opportunities in Health Informatics are Vast for Those with a Master’s Degree
Jonathan Mack, Ph.D., MSN, is a clinical associate professor and the program coordinator for the health informatics master’s degree program at University of San Diego. With more than 35 years of nursing experience, Dr.