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| Medical Informatics
or Health Informatics |
| Medical services are converging!
What this means is that one day
medical records, prescription records
and requests, medical insurance
will all operate out of the same
database. Health care quality and
efficiency can increase with the
use of integrated information systems.
Integration of all these databases
and making the database available
via the web so that all the different
service providers can input and
access the data from one place
is the big thing. |
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| What do you
do as a medical or health informaticist? |
| Integration. You need to have
a strong background in database
design and development, understand
theories of integrating different
systems in different platforms,
then develop web interfaces so
that users can access and report
through the web. |
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| What kind of
training would you need? |
| You need strong computer skills,
a background database design and
development training, a good understanding
of the medical and health care
fields and their business processes. |
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