How to Compare Medical Informatics vs. Health Informatics

There are many tools that the healthcare profession uses to help assist patients. Among these are medical informatics and health informatics. It can sometimes be quite confusing to differentiate between the two.

Instructions

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  To compare the two, first understand that medical informatics is comprised of technological tools used to track patient data.

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  Then, understand that health informatics is a science that combines healthcare, information technology and business administration. This science is used to create medical informatics, as well as public health informatics, pharmacy informatics and other information systems.

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  Identify areas of your life that have benefited from medical informatics, such as how your physician uses medical informatics to track and store information about your health and treatment.

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  Identify areas of your life that have benefited from the science of health informatics such as how your pharmacist uses pharmacy informatics to track and store information about your prescriptions, and how your physician has tools that accurately communicate prescription details to your pharmacists.