--- title: Health Informatics description: Health informatics merges healthcare, information technology, and data science to manage patient records and clinical data. Learners will understand how electronic health records, data standards, and information systems improve patient care and clinical workflows. category: health-medicine subcategory: medical-technology difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/health-informatics --- # Health Informatics Health informatics merges healthcare, information technology, and data science to manage patient records and clinical data. Learners will understand how electronic health records, data standards, and information systems improve patient care and clinical workflows. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Podcasts ### 1. Healthcare IT Today **Author:** John Lynn Listen to the latest happenings in Healthcare IT in this series of interviews with leading experts in healthcare technology. Whether you're trying to understand EMR and EHR, healthcare communications, security and privacy, analytics, telehealth and telemedicine, and much more, these interviews will dive into what's really happening on the front lines of healthcare. Learn more at: https://www.healthcareittoday.com **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.healthcareittoday.com **Tags:** health-informatics, podcast, healthcare-technology ## Websites ### 1. amia.org AMIA.org is the official site of the American Medical Informatics Association, a leading professional organization for health informatics. It offers resources on education and training, conferences (including the AMIA Annual Symposium), the JAMIA journal, policy and standards resources, and career development for health informatics professionals. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://amia.org **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 2. healthit.gov Official U.S. government site from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) that provides guidance, policies, and resources on health IT, interoperability, standards, privacy and security, and EHR adoption. It also features ONC programs, tools, and updates for clinicians, vendors, and policymakers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://healthit.gov **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 3. himss.org HIMSS.org is the online hub of the global nonprofit HIMSS, dedicated to advancing health information technology to improve care. It offers industry news, education resources, conferences, certifications, and guidance on health IT standards, interoperability, and digital health innovation. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://himss.org **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, medical-technology ## Books ### 1. Health Informatics: Practical Guide **Author:** Robert E. Hoyt, William R. Hersh A textbook covering electronic health records, healthcare data analytics, health information exchange, and system architecture, written for healthcare and IT students and professionals entering the health informatics field. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1387642413?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 2. Biomedical Informatics **Author:** Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino A graduate-level textbook covering biomedical informatics, spanning electronic health records, clinical decision support, natural language processing, medical imaging, and data standards, giving readers a conceptual and practical grounding in health information systems. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387289860?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 3. Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach **Author:** Ramona Nelson, Nancy Staggers A textbook for nursing and health professions students covering clinical decision support, documentation systems, order entry, and informatics adoption, using case studies to build practical skills for technology-driven healthcare environments. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323100953?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ## Courses ### 1. Clinical Natural Language Processing **Author:** Laura K. Wiley A University of Colorado course on processing unstructured medical text in R: linguistic basics of NLP, regular expressions, clinical note structure and keyword context windows. The capstone has you build text-processing rules that identify diabetic complications from patient notes. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 5 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/clinical-natural-language-processing **Tags:** clinical-nlp, natural-language-processing, clinical-notes, regular-expressions, r-programming --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/health-informatics