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The health care industry faces a consistent and growing demand for innovation. Patients and providers both want to see higher quality care and lower costs. Technology and data promise to help make this happen.
Health informatics consultants are support professionals responsible for the systems and databases that health care organizations and facilities use to maintain patient records. Industry advances in health IT and emerging digital health technologies are forcing health care organizations to keep up. Due to this growing need, the demand for health informatics consultants is increasing.
In February 2009, President Obama passed the Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health (HITECH) Act as part of the economic stimulus bill known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Since then, more and more health care providers are abandoning the old ways of paper and filing and entering the digital age.
Data Analytics is the process of examining raw datasets to find trends, draw conclusions and identify the potential for improvement.
A career in health informatics was always the plan for Nicole Adisey. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management at the University of Pittsburgh, completed two relevant internships, and began work as an associate business systems analyst at a health IT company shortly after graduation.
Dr. Dilhari DeAlmeida is currently serving as an associate professor for the Department of Health Information Management (HIM) at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her BS in Molecular Biology, pursuing a career in that field for nearly a decade before changing direction.
Annual exams for women are also known as well-woman exams or comprehensive women’s wellness exams. It’s so easy to get busy and skip a year, but women should not do this. Yearly checkups are vital to creating a comprehensive record of a woman’s health and increase the chances that any issues will be caught early […]
In late February, when Kelly Kravec (BS ’11) left her office at the Ambulatory eRecord Department of UPMC Information Services Division for a long-overdue family vacation, there were no known coronavirus cases in Allegheny County.
There are many paths leading to a career in health informatics. For Alex Cutsumbis, health informatics – and data science – was a way to merge two backgrounds and enhance the knowledge he already possessed.
Health care informatics is not a new profession or industry; but it is one growing at a rapid rate. Big data has been around for some time now, so it is no surprise that it has found its way into health care. In fact, the use of big data has set a whole new standard for the industry. The collection of data in health care brings with it a quality and availability that has never been reached before.