What role does health informatics play in the design

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Title: What is Healthcare Informatics?

Video Details: Incorporating information technologies and information management, this work describes evolving areas of efficiency in the healthcare industry due to healthcare informatics enhancements.

Beginning with an overview of how information management can enhance organizational efficiency the book delves into how informatics can impact productivity for healthcare providers and reduce costs.

It stresses the incorporation of available information technologies along with appropriate management tactics to ensure the most effective informatics outcomes that can drive efficiencies.

Areas that are addressed include project management in healthcare, knowledge management, decision support systems, business intelligence, Six Sigma, and advanced analytics such as data mining.

Title: Careers in Health Informatics

A) After reading Chapter 8, and watching the videos, answer the following questions using one (1) of the presentation methods below:

-2-3 pages essay summary (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

Address the following questions

1) Describe health informatics and identify its place among the other layers of the HIS and technology model.

2) What role does health informatics play in the design, development and implementation of new HIS and technology, especially EHR systems?

3) What warnings does the IOM's report Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care provide regarding EHR systems data that are used for secondary uses? What types of flaws potentially exist in EHR data?

4) Choose one Career option in Health Informatics that you are the most interested in. List the salary, job description, education, etc. for the optional career option of choice.

- A minimum of one reference is required to support your response to the discussion question. You may cite the course required textbook and or other sources in which you have used content from. Make sure your references are in APA format.

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