There are many trends in healthcare information
technology to cover. With the US government's economic stimulus package
geared to improve heathcare IT, there will be areas were expertise will
be greatly needed. Outlined below will touch on 5 hot trends that
will be need qualified professionals to help implement the large efforts
of the healthcare industry: 1. EMR (electronic medical
records) or EHR (electronic health records) - This is going to a
huge effort on the part of many medical establishments. This system will
take the "health history" of an individual and create a so called
electronic medical record that will follow a patient anywhere for patient
safety and more accurate treatments. All of the is over a huge network
and storage systems along with integrating several applications.
Job Title Examples: Developers, Programmers, Project Managers,
Billing and Coding specialists, systems analysts but most will say EMR or
EHR. 2. Informatics - Informatics as it
related to healthcare will include using medical information from
clinical, nursing, medical, biotechnology and similar disciplines into an
electronic format to be either stored, retrieved, shared, analyzed to
help make informative medical decisions.
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Job Title Examples: Clinical informatics analyst, Informatics
consultants, medical informatics - employers may seek specific degrees in
the discipline (ie. RN, BSN, Biotechnology )
3. Enterprise Architecture - Enterprise
architecture with work within a healthcare organization like in other
institutions. It is most commonly used to better outline a method of
business and uses tools to understand and best document the structure of
an organization. Very much strategic in nature. Job Title
Examples: Almost always will have the terms "enterprise architecture" or
"data architecture" or "data modeler" in the title. Usually a mix of SOA,
data warehousing, ER modeling, Diagram modeling, frameworks, and
strategy. 4. Patient Safety related systems &
Quality - This area of healthcare will use systems and
applications to reduce with the goal to eliminate medical errors in and
efforts to drastically increase healthcare quality and communication.
Job Title Examples: Quality and patient safety will usually be
part of the title and are non technical. The technical positions will be
developers/programmers or applications tester of these types of
applications. 5. Interoperability - Overall
this area covers bringing together healthcare information technology
systems together and integrating them in order for them to work together
across locations and then have the ability to deliver quality useful
information to service it's end user. Job Title Examples:
Project management, software engineer, sometimes within informatics,
architect and, analysts. There is so much to know within each
of these 5 but there is much opportunity for one with technical skills to
seek out so many facets of healthcare.
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