The field of Health Informatics

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The field of Health Informatics
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• Health Informatics is catching up as a field of
  health and Information Technology. At its barest,
  it can be understood as being the area that
  concerns the use of IT in health. However, Health
  Informatics goes beyond being just this. It
  consists of the entire IT ecosystem in the
  healthcare industry, which means that individual
  healthcare units use IT via a connected system
  that helps them to coordinate health information
  via the Net. The wider aim of Health Informatics
  is to improve healthcare quality and efficiency
  with the use of IT.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDCs) offers a more comprehensive understanding
of Health Informatics, defining it as the
complete science that concerns the entire why and
how of health IT. Since Health Informatics is
essentially about using IT for the accomplishment
of several healthcare-related goals and aims
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it is fast evolving into a specialized area of
its own, having its own set of concepts, areas of
study, theories and practical applications.
Health Informatics involves using these in real
life situations for achieving better health
outcomes.
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International standards for Health Informatics

• Health Informatics is governed by a few
  international standards. Provisions of ISO
  277992008, which is part of ICS 35.240.80, is
  the guiding international standard for this area.

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Related subdomains

• Health Informatics consists of many interrelated
  subdomains. These include clinical informatics,
  pharmacy informatics, nursing informatics,
  pathology informatics, and many others.

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Reason for the evolution of Health Informatics

• Health Informatics evolved rapidly as a result of
  the breakneck speed at which the concept of
  Electronic Health Records (EHR) caught the
  healthcare sector's imagination. Its growth has
  been synonymous with that of this idea of health
  IT. As result of the high pace at which
  healthcare providers adapt EHRs various concepts
  relating to healthcare, such as meaningful use
  have come to become part of the Health
  Informatics vocabulary.

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Growth prospects for Health Informatics

• An indicator of the alacrity with which Health
  Informatics is progressing is the assessment by
  the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), according
  to which. jobs in the Health Informatics sector
  will expand by a whopping 22 till at least
  2022, which is much higher than that of any other
  sector. This assessment is corroborated by a
  study done by careerbuilder.com, which gives
  Health Informatics the highest ranking for job
  opportunities in any growing industry.

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