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Article: Ahead of the Curve: Health Informatics Specialist.(Occupation overview)(Brief article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- December 11, 2008
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Byline: Marty Nemko
Health Informatics Specialist/Manager. "The job market for health informatics people is absolutely out of sight," exclaims Merida Johns, founding director of the graduate program in health informatics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. And it's no surprise: Hospitals, insurers, and regional collaboratives are switching to electronic medical records. Nurses and doctors, urged to do more evidence-based medicine, are using computerized expert systems to guide their diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Healthcare providers also are collecting more data to evaluate quality of care.
Health informatics is an umbrella term for a ...