You might have worked in the healthcare field but have always been interested in how analyzing clinical data can help to improve patient outcomes, from finding ways to reduce patient re-admission rates to improving patient satisfaction rates. You might have worked in the IT field and wanted to work towards Read more…
Informatics is a diverse field with many different disciplines given that this is the Health Analytic Insights site, in this blog post I am going to focus on 4 types of informatics disciplines: Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Pharmacy Informatics and Nursing Informatics. These disciplines have overlapping skills and interests but do Read more…
When it comes to making advances in health informatics, taking a look at the different interoperability layers within healthcare and the standards that are used to exchange data between health systems is key. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) defines interoperability within 4 levels: Foundational, Semantic, Structural and Read more…
There have been several studies that have highlighted poor medical adherence when it comes to filling prescription medication and taking it as prescribed. The World Health Organization has quoted around 50% of patients do not take their medication as prescribed. This can lead to long-term issues for patients such as Read more…
In this blog post we are going to go over the differences between health informatics and health information management. Health informatics is the process of transforming and manipulating healthcare data into information, to uncover insights and drive patient outcomes. Health information management more focuses on the management and documentation of Read more…
According to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, prior to the pandemic, clinician burnout was considered a global crisis. Clinician burnout has been highly documented when it comes to dealing with alert fatigue and the use of the EMR/EHR within healthcare organizations. In this blog post, I am Read more…
In this blog post I want to discuss one of the most critical and consistent issues in health informatics – interoperability. I want to address the importance of interoperability in healthcare because I believe it is the foundation for advancing clinical decision support tools such as healthcare chatbots, mHealth apps Read more…
The field of Health Informatics is rapidly expanding, with the pandemic and the rapid adoption of telemedicine, there has been a spotlight on this field. This field has opportunities for people with an IT background who want to get involved in the clinical space, clinicians who have an interest in Read more…
Health Informatics is a fairly new field, as a result, not everyone will take the “straight” path of getting a degree in Health Informatics and then a job in the field. There are many people who end up in Health Informatics from a variety of backgrounds. Some people come from Read more…
You might be stumped when deciding which career path to take, should I follow Health Informatics or Bioinformatics? Or you might be confused by the differences between these two similarly named fields. In this blog post, I am going to break down the similarities and differences between these fields so Read more…