Why pursue a career in Health Informatics?
Health informaticians are unique as their profession involves healthcare, information technology and management. Healthcare is a complex work environment where difficult decisions are commonplace and the potential for decision errors is high. As a health informatics professional, you will be helping healthcare professionals to make better decisions and to reduce errors in patient care through the use of information technology. Upon graduation, you will be able to work in hospitals, for the Canadian Institute for Health Information, for Ontario’s Smart Systems for Health Agency as well as for information technology companies with a focus on healthcare applications, pharmaceutical companies, consulting companies, and many other healthcare organizations. Recent estimates for the job market indicate that there is currently a demand for a minimum of two thousand (2,000) health informatics specialists in Canada alone (“Wanted: Cyber Clinicians to Transform the Nation’s Healthcare System Bit
