When PSA interviewed Dr. “Ogi” Alozie from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso, one of his “hats” was “Chief Medical Informatics Officer”. It turns out that’s a way of describing a nexus of various tech and information based disciplines, or, if you will, practices.
So what does that mean for PSA which is trying to fit the various parts of the learning tech puzzle together? Here’s a couple links from the University of Washington’s School of Information, which has a “Informatics” program.
A definition here.
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And a link to a series of videos talking about the UW Informatics.
And this Wikipedia page:
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