Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

The healthcare industry has emerged to be very data-intensive. How much, you ask? Well, it would require 2.3 zettabytes of data (or 2.3 trillion DVDs) to capture fully the data that the industry ...

At the intersection of healthcare and information technology is health informatics — the science that guides the collection, analysis and use of data. Why is health informatics important? It helps to ...

We wanted to learn more about what informatics nurses do and review some of the highlights of the recent workforce survey done by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). So ...