Friday, December 30, 2011

Are You Thinking about Career in Health Informatics?

In the medical care industry, there are 2 different types of technology personnel:

  1.  Health care IT
  2.  and Informatics professionals.  
The senior executive for healthcare information systems and information technology for the healthcare service and directs, coordinates and controls all informatics technology operations.

Distinct factors have been offered for the lag in medical technology adoption, that  include huge investment requirements and final user resistance. User resistance normally stems from bad system design resulting in highly difficulty or wrong user interfaces, lack of convenient training for the end users and lack of involvement or poor integration of input of healthcare professionals in all stages of the technology adoption.