And several universities plan to offer graduate degrees in health informatics in the near future. Medical informatics students take a variety of courses. You can divide them into three broad categories. The first includes IT courses such as programming, database support, network design and so on. The second category includes health-related courses such as community health and epidemiology.
Epidemiology is the study of how diseases spread across human populations.
The third category deals with things like hospital management and administration. Many medical informatics students already have a degree, usually in health fields such as medicine and nursing. In fact, you might only be accepted into a program if you have experience working with hospital information systems. Still, high school students can prepare themselves. Take computer classes in high school.