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Healt/Medical Informatics program for IT professionals
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Are you looking to get a tech-based job in a hospital (server administrator, peoplesoft admin, etc.) or are you looking to get involved in the medical aspects?
I don't know what Medical/Health Informatics involves and what you'll be studying (is it like Bioinformatics?). For a purely tech-based job, I don't think it will help much if you already have a bachelors in Computer Science or Information Systems. For the medical aspect, I think it has the potential to help an existing CS or Bioinformatics degree.
Overall, I think it depends on your existing bachelors degree and experience. If you have a strong CS background, you might be able to get involved in a medically-related job/project without the Masters. Then, grow into the science aspects of it all, possibly taking classes with tuition reimbursement as it relates to your job.
I don't know what Medical/Health Informatics involves and what you'll be studying (is it like Bioinformatics?). For a purely tech-based job, I don't think it will help much if you already have a bachelors in Computer Science or Information Systems. For the medical aspect, I think it has the potential to help an existing CS or Bioinformatics degree.
Overall, I think it depends on your existing bachelors degree and experience. If you have a strong CS background, you might be able to get involved in a medically-related job/project without the Masters. Then, grow into the science aspects of it all, possibly taking classes with tuition reimbursement as it relates to your job.
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Why don't you ask the programs that interest you about job placement of graduates.
OHSU for example has a big program. You can also poke around the AMIA website for job offers and meetings. AMIA just created a board subspecialty in informatics, so if you finish medical school you can go that route and end up CTO of a hospital.
A lot of the real development jobs are done by companies, and the in hospital work is a lot more about tech support, resetting passwords, network management, help desk, etc.
If you want to develop systems and code, look at the big companies like Epic, Cerner, and all the smaller companies and see if they are hiring and what requirements they have. Then you can see what you need to have.
OHSU for example has a big program. You can also poke around the AMIA website for job offers and meetings. AMIA just created a board subspecialty in informatics, so if you finish medical school you can go that route and end up CTO of a hospital.
A lot of the real development jobs are done by companies, and the in hospital work is a lot more about tech support, resetting passwords, network management, help desk, etc.
If you want to develop systems and code, look at the big companies like Epic, Cerner, and all the smaller companies and see if they are hiring and what requirements they have. Then you can see what you need to have.
