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Medicine, Tech Converge in Health IT Program
on July 7, 2009
In this modern age, where multiligualism is the key to success, graduates of Montana Tech's health care informatics program learn the technical and clinical vocabularies necessary to manage information technology projects at hospitals, the Great Falls Tribune reports.
Students who leave the program at Montana Tech in Butte with a bachelor's degree become translators with a foot in both worlds: medicine and technology. These translators, also known as "health informaticists," often have experience in the allied health professions, such as records or claims. Many times, they have also pursued additional training and education in health IT and project management through such health care informatics degree programs.
"We work to bring technology into health care in ways that will lower costs and improve the efficiency of care," said Kaila Fowler, 26, who was in the second class of graduates of Montana Tech's informatics program and now works as a research analyst at Benefis Health System. "This degree would prepare you to work as a consultant or for a software company as part of a team to provide input to create a better product."
American Medical Informatics Association chief executive Don Detmer estimates a demand for 70,000 health informaticians. According to the association, midlevel jobs — like those for clinical analysts — generally pay around $70,000 a year.
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