What is the Difference between Health Informatics and Health Information Management?
In this blog post we are going to go over the differences between health informatics and health information management.
Health informatics is the process of transforming and manipulating healthcare data into information, to uncover insights and drive patient outcomes.
Health information management more focuses on the management and documentation of health records. This is key for billing and claim purposes and to mitigate risk for patients.
I hope this post clears up the differences between the health informatics and the health information management field. Both fields at their core exist to improve care for the patient whether it is analyzing long-term trends to improve clinical practice (health informatics) or ensuring the medical record is correctly coded and the health record is correctly transferred over from the lab to the hospital (health information management).