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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 it became apparent to me that if we’re going to have a deep skill at University of Chicago in Healthcare Informatics that we needed to train our own and provide a training program that would attract people to University of Chicago. . And they have a group of frontline workers get together and discuss what they can have done.