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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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Coffee Talk: Training Professionals to Lead Healthcare’s Evolution with Biomedical Informatics

Digital Health Today

And the amount of data that we’re collecting across the industry is phenomenal and the number of people we have that actually know how to use and leverage those data is inadequate. But basically, I want to say first, there’s a lot of ways in healthcare system. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?