Eighty percent nursing informatics specialists report they are satisfied or highly satisfied with their careers, according to a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey. In the ...

The role: Clinical informatics specialists work with clinicians, technology companies and patients to integrate and optimize health-care technologies. While the role was once confined to a hospital ...

In December, the first physicians to specialize in clinical informatics received their board certification. The creation of the new subspecialty was spearheaded by the American Medical Informatics ...

With hospitals "raising the bar" to meet meaningful use requirements, new positions are being created within IT departments that have a focus on quality and data, says one consultant. "We are busier ...

The last decade in healthcare has seen an increasing transition, from a focus in the acute care setting to a broader perspective encompassing ambulatory, home health, hospice and long-term care ...

Health informatics is an area of worldwide growth potential as governments seek to optimise the value from healthcare spending, and pharmaceutical companies are asked to demonstrate greater clinical ...