DSCI 321 - Health Analytics Library Research Guide

Medical Informatics analytics, also known as health informatics, is a life sciences discipline that emerged in the 1950s and continues today. It encompasses all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information, communications, and technology (ICT) in health care. The role of medical informatics is to identify, implement, and integrate health information technology into healthcare environments to aid in care delivery.

Health analytics, which emerged in the 1980s, provides insights about current healthcare environments based on data generated within them to better understand their dynamics, identify and improve service delivery by improving cost-effectiveness and efficiency, and forecast emerging trends that will impact healthcare delivery based on the data generated in healthcare environments.   

Health informatics has traditionally been seen as a less technical discipline, but today, many professionals in this discipline use techniques like predictive informatics (including AI) and machine learning to extract insights from health treatments, research, and information to aid in patient diagnosis and treatment, designed to improve clinical treatment and patient outcomes.