HEALTH INFORMATICS
Healthcare informatics is a field and general discipline that is basically a combination of information technology and healthcare. It is made up primarily of computer systems and software programs with the main goal of developing more efficient and intuitive ways of controlling stored health information, managing clinical workflow tasks, and improving the general security of healthcare information. This sort of informatics is largely bound up in technology, but also requires a high degree of specialization for the world of medicine. In certain respects it’s similar to other sorts of informatics, like for sales or business operations, but in others — particularly where privacy and data sensitivity are concerned — it’s really different. It also must evolve as quickly as both technology and healthcare do, which often means that it’s constantly changing.
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