The Nurses in KSA: What is Health Informatics

Sunday, November 05, 2006

What is Health Informatics

What is Health Informatics?
The rapidly developings scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, and optimal use of viomedical information, data and knowledge for problem solving and decision making. It accordingly touches on all basic and applied fields in biomedical science and is closely tied to modern information technologies.

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What is a Healthcare Webmaster

What is a Healthcare Webmaster

HEALTHCARE WEBMASTER

I. Responsibilities:

Manage technical end of enterprise Web initiative.

Manage enterprise Web servers and Web databases.

Develop Internet/intranet solutions for employees and departments.

Justify Web development by business case, ROI and relation to the IT strategic plan (if one exists).

Recruit, retain and supervise Web development staff.

Evaluate and recommend Web hardware and software solutions.

Ensure that Web development staff receives all necessary techincal training.

Enable access to legacy systems as need, technology and regulations dictate.

Keep current on general Web techincal developments as well as eHealthcare initiatives.

Understand and implement solutions to Web-related security issues (bugs, holes, viruses, password protection, etc.).

Coordinate development projects with other areas of IT and clinical departments.

Assist in the development and delivery of enterprise-wide Internet employee training.

Work with CIO, IT management and Human Resources to develop enterprise-wide Web policies (acceptible use, security, access, content, user privacy, etc.).

Work with marketing department to develop the website as a promotional tool while staying within the bounds of accepted practice (i.e. no spamming or reselling user info to third parties without consent).

Understand regulations and ethical issues related to eHealthcare (i.e., HIPAA).

II. Skills:

Strong familiarity with basic Web and Internet technology.

Fluency in HTML, JavaScript, SQL and a CGI protocol (Perl, Cold Fusion, Active Server).

Understanding of server OS (Unix, NT, Win2000) and daemon (IIS, Netscape, Apache).

Understanding of server management and security issues.

Personnel management, recruitment and retention.

Ability to develop and implement project plans.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Strong presentation skills; ability with PowerPoint.

Excellent PC skills (familiarity with both PC and Mac platforms a plus).

Ability/willingness to investigate new technologies.

III. Salaries:

A cursory search of Salary.com revealed that salaries for management-level Web positions throughout the U.S. currently range from $68,000 to $136,000.

IV. Titles:

Webmaster.

Web Technology Manager/Director.

Chief Web Technologist.

Chief Web Officer (if position reports to CEO or Board).

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