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What’s going on all,
Okay so, here’s the lowdown… I’m currently majoring in health informatics (basically deals with managing health information data when dealing with medical records – primarily the electronic health records <EHR>). In any event, there is a huge push for EHR’s to be implemented in the healthcare setting and currently, no standard exists that will easily allow hospitals to share data (health records) with one another. There is a huge demand for health informatics personnel to know a programming language, as most EHR’s are needed to be managed by those who can manipulate the data to gather information (rate of which patients fall out of bed, prescribing errors, disease registries etc.). My professors have acknowledged that any programming language can be used in conjunction with EHR’s to accomplish said task above.
My question is, if I was wanting to make web based applications that can be used to streamline the data to correlate with real time trends, which programming language would be best? I’ll give an example, say I am a hospital administrator who is filling out a report for insurance companies and they want to know how their hospital is performing when compared to another similar hospital. I would want to make an application that will allow the hospital administrator to see the past data and compare it with current, trending data so to be aware of what measures to take to improve upon a certain criteria??
I know it seems relatively complex, but any and all help would be greatly appreciated! I do NOT know any specific programming language, but I have worked with dreamweaver in the past to create a website.