How will a Certificate in Informatics (Health Care Informatics specialization) benefit my career?
It is fair to say that all health care practitioners will be users of health care informatics now or in the future. If an office is currently using digital records for their patients, they can now do searches for complex mixes of information such as a check to insure that all patients diagnosed with diabetes have had a recommended ophthalmologic consult in the last 6 months. In another case, an EMT or emergency nurse might like to consult a national health record database when an unresponsive and bleeding patient comes in. Pertinent questions that this database might answer are: Is this patient taking Coumadin? Does this patient have an infectious disease such as hepatitis? Has this patent had a recent blood transfusion? All health care professionals could benefit from a certificate in health care informatics to enhance their growing understanding and usage of computers in health care. In addition, there are health care workers that concentrate on the design, and application of informa
