The medical field (especially research) realizes that informatics is extremely important, but there’s not much consensus on implementation. I just caught a talk last week on the topic, and the speaker estimated that there were well over 200 “adjectivehere informatics” terms he found in a quick Google search—people just take whatever they originally did and add ‘informatics’ to it. Thus, terms like ‘pediatric endocrinology informatics’ abound in the literature...
You should also know that medicine, healthcare, and medical research as fields especially tend to be complex webs of conservatism, legalities, and other nasty little problems that must be overcome for change to occur (tip: check the cynicality on OvercomingBias). I think many technical people realize the cross-disciplinary opportunities available, but they just run aground.
The medical field (especially research) realizes that informatics is extremely important, but there’s not much consensus on implementation. I just caught a talk last week on the topic, and the speaker estimated that there were well over 200 “adjectivehere informatics” terms he found in a quick Google search—people just take whatever they originally did and add ‘informatics’ to it. Thus, terms like ‘pediatric endocrinology informatics’ abound in the literature...
You should also know that medicine, healthcare, and medical research as fields especially tend to be complex webs of conservatism, legalities, and other nasty little problems that must be overcome for change to occur (tip: check the cynicality on OvercomingBias). I think many technical people realize the cross-disciplinary opportunities available, but they just run aground.