Rapid Growth in Medical Informatics and Expanding Career Opportunities
CAREER INFORMATION
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics*, employment in medical and health informatics is expected to increase by 18 percent through the year 2016. That’s faster than the average for all occupations in the United States.
One reason the field of medical informatics is expanding at this high rate is due to the increasing number of medical tests, treatments and procedures evaluated by health insurance companies, regulators, courts and consumers.* As a result, there’s an increased demand for electronic record-keeping and the professionals who can lead and manage this effort.
As graduates of the MMI program, students will possess the technical skills and leadership experience necessary to lead and manage change in the health care industry. The demand for medical informatics professionals is increasing in various roles such as consulting independent practices and large medical facilities to implement and maintain electronic health records.
Graduates will have a competitive advantage when seeking medical informatics jobs in:
- Health Care Administration and Management
- Design, extract and analyze management information from health care information systems
- Develop implementation and financing strategies for integrating electronic health record systems into organizations
- Create innovative applications for electronic health records
- Provide information management consulting services to health care organizations
- Clinical IT Leadership
- Promote the design and deployment of new technologies to improve patient outcomes
- Design and develop clinical decision support and knowledge-based systems
- Research
- Develop new techniques and technologies for integrating clinical and research data and information
- Collaborate with industry as a consultant, providing clinical input during design process
- Education / Academic
- Teach medical and clinical students, residents and fellows core informatics concepts
- Develop education programs in biomedical informatics
Organizations Needing Medical Informatics Professionals with Master’s Degrees include:
- Hospitals and other health care providers
- Private health care practices
- Medical software companies
- Health care consulting companies
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Medical device and medical technology companies
- Medical libraries
- Public health organizations
- Government and non-governmental agencies and health care associations
- Insurance and other health care related companies
- Research laboratories
- Universities and colleges
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition.
