Healthcare Informatics Professions

Biomedical informatics is an applied science, and is inherently intertwined with the contents of clinical and biomedical sciences and with computer and information sciences. Biomedical informatics is the study of biomedical, health care, and clinical information: its structure, its communication, and its use. Since all aspects of science and society have become increasingly information intensive, the need to understand, to apply, and to create new methods for analyzing, managing, and acquiring information has never been greater. Nowhere is this need more acute than in biomedical, clinical, health care, and pharmaceutical industries where health care planners, managers, scientists, and practitioners routinely confront conflicting sources of knowledge and burgeoning numbers of data.