Public health informatics are another area of opportunity for physicians

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a ceremony at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announcing their Public Health Informatics Fellowship being recognized as a Registered Apprenticeship by the Department of Labor (DOL). This potentially sets the stage for public health informaticians to become a DOL standard occupational code, which means they would appear in DOL labor statistics.

This is good news, and hopefully will lead to DOL recognizing other types of informaticians in their statistics. Public health informatics is another area of the larger biomedical informatics field that provides opportunities for physicians and others.

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