Medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. This field deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.
This program covers the multidisciplinary field of informatics, decision support systems, telemedicine, ethics, consumer health informatics, international healthcare systems, global health informatics, translational research informatics, and home care.
Medical informatics professionals are tasked with using information technology to its greatest advantage in the healthcare industry. This means they are responsible for such tasks as:
Creating, maintaining or facilitating new ways for medical facilities and practices to keep electronic health records (EHR), Improving communication between healthcare providers and facilities to ensure the best patient outcomes, storing, managing and analyzing data for research, assisting with complex, technology-dependent research, such as that involved in human genome sequencing.