Online Degrees in Health Informatics

Health Informatics Degrees

Health informatics is a field that is poised to expand at a great rate, not only due to the rapid growth of the healthcare industry as a whole, but with the current administration's stated desire that we move toward a system of computerized health records. With a degree in health of medical informatics, you will have the training necessary to create and maintain these health information databases, and to devise new ways in which medical facilities, staff and patients can communicate with each other as needed.

With a medical informatics program, which may be offered at the bachelor's, master's or post-bachelor's certificate level, you may have the opportunity to specialize in one of several areas. As a bioinformatics specialist, you will be working primarily with biomedical information, and may also deal with nursing and dental information. A clinical informatics specialty will find you concerned with the use of information technology in the fields of patient care, clinical research and medical education.

Organizational informatics will involve you in determining how medical records and information are shared within medical organizations. With a public health informatics specialty you'll use information technology to educate the public on matters of health and healthcare, and make medical research accessible to the general public, as well as to health practices. If you choose a social informatics specialty, you'll study all of the social aspects of health information technology and be a part of a movement to create a better information system in the Health Industry.