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    Health informatics is a multidisciplinary field that uses digital technologies to collect and interpret medical records to improve patient outcomes. It involves managing resources, technology, and procedures for obtaining, storing, and using health data. Thanks to health informatics, patients, doctors, nurses, and others now have digital access to patient information. While interpretations vary, health informatics is fundamentally changing medicine by caring for individuals and populations, and lowering healthcare costs. It also offers well-paying career opportunities for qualified professionals.

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    Allison Prentice

    HLTH-302 Sec 004

    Professor Irobi

    1/24/2021

    Week 1 Assignment

    Health informatics is a relatively young multidisciplinary discipline in the healthcare

    business that employs digital technologies to collect and interpret medical records in order to

    enhance patient outcomes. Health Information Systems is another name for it. Health informatics

    is a fast expanding discipline in the healthcare industry that deals with the resources, technology,

    and procedures needed to obtain, store, retrieve, and utilize health and medical data. Patients,

    physicians, nurses, hospital managers, insurance companies, and health information

    technologists all have digitized access to patient information thanks to healthcare informatics

    efforts. While there are several conflicting interpretations of health informatics, two facts remain

    constant. By caring for patient populations to enhancing the health of large communities, health

    informatics is altering the practice of medicine. One of several nation's quickest going sectors,

    health informatics offers well-paying career opportunities for those with the necessary

    knowledge and qualifications. The objective of the ever-evolving discipline of health informatics

    is to use this data and the insights it generates to do the following. Individual and clinical patient

    care should be improved. Ensuring the health of whole populations is a priority. To also enable

    health-care organizations to give care at a lower cost

    References:

    - Everything You Need to Know About Health Informatics: What Is It? Who Studies It? Why?

    And How? (2021, June 29). University of Pittsburgh Blog. Retrieved from: https://

    online.shrs.pitt.edu/blog/what-is-health-informatics-everything-you-need-to-know/

    - American Health Information Management Association. (2014, September). Defining the

    Basics of Health Informatics for HIM Professionals. Retrieved from: http://library.ahima.org/

    doc?oid=107443#.WkrgjrpFzIU

    - HITC Staff. (2016, March 2). 6 Ways Health Informatics Is Transforming Health Care. HIT

    Consultant. Retrieved from: https://hitconsultant.net/2016/03/02/health-informatics-

    transforming-health-care/

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