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