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Breaking down the 7 Types of Health Informatics
With the advent of electronic health records, healthcare organizations found themselves in possession of large swaths of clinical data that were more accessible than ever before. Now, with the addition of payer data and information from emerging technologies like wearables, healthcare data analytics presents a unique opportunity to significantly improve care delivery and patient outcomes.But making these data sets usable is no small task. Healthcare data has to be created, collected and processed long before it can be used for an analytics project. Managing these data sets can also be a challenge, requiring significant resource and personnel investments.
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Health informatics is key to this process, marrying health data, information technology (IT) systems and clinical expertise to enhance healthcare. There are multiple types of informatics in healthcare today, and each bolsters the utility of data analytics in the industry.To understand the importance of health informatics, one must have an understanding of health IT -- the subset of IT concerned with the development, use and maintenance of information systems within the healthcare industry.
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