Tag Archives: health informatics
Johns Hopkins Hospital – Applied Health Informatics
I received an email from my former professor encouraging qualified applicants to apply for the Fall 2012 Applied Health Informatics program at Johns Hopkins. Additional funding has been received that will allow to fund up to THIRTY (30) ONC Health … Continue reading
University of Utah – PhD Program
I recently became interested in obtaining my PhD in nursing informatics. On the top of my head, I know the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the University of Utah offers this degree. I attended a webinar last November and someone … Continue reading
Resources for Health Informatics
I’ve compiled a list of health informatics journals in case there is a subject area that I am not touching upon that you would like more information on. ADVANCE for Health Information Executives Online Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioinformatics BioSystems … Continue reading
Conducting Workflow Analysis
I attended a webinar in November hosted by ANIA-CARING. The speaker was Cheryl Parker and the webinar was titled, ” Conducting Workflow Analysis – Don’t Get Trapped by How.” Part of the job of a systems analyst are … Continue reading
16 Types of Health Informaticist Jobs
One reason why I became a nurse is I love helping people. Whether it’s with the small stuff like helping people get out of bed or educating them about their disease. Being in the health informatics field, I help people … Continue reading
4 Fun Facts about Health Informatics You May Not Know
I think its important to have fun at work. Health informatics is a dry topic and may not be much fun, well at least for some people. I always try to have fun at work because the content is dry and … Continue reading
Lessons Learned
Last week, I wrote about my trials finding a job in nursing informatics. If you missed my two part posts, you can read the first part here and the second part here. This week I will write about my … Continue reading
365 Days
{image: credit} Well this is it. The countdown begins. In 365 days, my hospital will go-live with our new healthcare software. Our go-live has been in the works for some time now but the countdown to December 2, 2012 … Continue reading
My Two Conflicting Worlds – Part 1
{image: credit} *This blog post will be a three part series on how I transitioned from bedside nursing to the information technology sector. I was inspired to write my own story after someone read my previous blog posts in this blog and asked … Continue reading
Differences between Healthcare Informatics versus Nursing Informatics
In my previous post, I wrote I am a nursing informatics graduate. Some people may be wondering what the difference is between nursing informatics and healthcare informatics. Nursing informatics is a specialty within nursing that integrates nursing science, computer science, … Continue reading
