Health Informatics Profession

Health informatics refers to the study of information processing as it relates to health care. It is concerned with the organization, storage, and structuring of vast quantities of health-related data. In the broader sense it is the process of data-driven knowledge, and then using that knowledge to develop algorithms, models, and systems for use in health care delivery and pharmaceutical and clinical research. Examples of health informatics applications include Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), specialized software ranging from information retrieval systems, electronic prescribing linked to electronic health records systems, to more sophisticated decision support tools using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques into drug kinetics, patient risk stratification, and the like.