(Bio)Medical informatics is concerned with the management and use of information in health care. (Bio)Medical informatics is among the fastest growing field due to the federal and local mandates and incentives for the adoption of electronic medical record, e-prescribing, clinical decision support systems, and many other health information technologies in all health care arenas, for the purposes of improving quality of patients care and reducing medical errors.
People working in medical informatics usually have a masters degree in (bio)medical informatics, health informatics, or public health informatics.
Nova Southeastern University Biomedical Informatics Program offers a course of study leading to the degree of Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics. It is designed to train future leaders in the development, dissemination, and evaluation of information technology as it relates to the healthcare environment such as hospitals and health systems, health information technology system vendors, eHealth companies, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions.
Healthcare is the largest industry in the country. Information technology is the present and future. Medical informatics is the field where technology meets healthcare. There is a pressing demanding for professional who can speak both languages (IT and HC). Medical informatics programs aim at training professionals who can speak both languages and to be the leaders in the unavoidable transformation / movement.
With its focus on clinical informatics, the M.S.BI programs curriculum emphasizes on the areas of computer science and its clinical applications in medical informatics, management and program evaluations in health information technology.
This innovative program uses both on campus and online formats to enable working professionals to earn a Masters degree in biomedical informatics without career disruption. Our students are either from the health care field (e.g. physicians, pharmacists, nurses, clinical laboratory technologist, etc) or from the IT field.
Both on-campus and online courses are offered in the program, however, the majority of our working professional students choose to pursue the degree completely through distance.
Besides offering the masters degree which requires 43 credits, the NSUs MSBI program offer public health informatics certificate. Recently, NSUs MSBI Program was named as the fifth academic institution to partner with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) to offer the 10×10 certificate. The AMIA 10×10 Program’s goal is to train 10,000 health care professionals in applied health and medical informatics by the year 2010. The other four universities offer AMIAs 10X10 program are: Stanford University Medical School, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Illinois at Chicago
According to the latest survey (2008 Compensation Survey Salaries and Benefits of healthcare IT Professionals Vendome Group), depending on the settings, previous degrees and field, and the level of position acquired, the median salary varies from l $67,000 $217,000 depending on the geographic location, nature, and size of the facility.
(Bio)Medical informatics is concerned with the management and use of information in health care. (Bio)Medical informatics is among the fastest growing field due to the federal and local mandates and incentives for the adoption of electronic medical record, e-prescribing, clinical decision support systems, and many other health information technologies in all health care arenas, for the purposes of improving quality of patients care and reducing medical errors. 
