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by euvitudo 985 days ago
The difference, imo, is basically in how you define your primary goal. Is it software development or is it specifically informatics?

In my experience (in academia) most informaticians are focused on the data whereas my focus is software development in support of the informaticians’ goals.

Take a look at some Universities that have Biomedical Informatics departments; I started with a University that has such a department. They’ll typically have faculty that have grant-funded projects that require a software component, whether it’s NLP, AI, ML or application development for various purposes (including clinical-use software).

Also look for organizations or companies working with HL7 standards (most recent tech is FHIR (http://hl7.org/fhir/)).

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Very helpful, thank you for responding!! I do see one or two bioinformatics adjacent software positions at a nearby uni so I'll try applying there!

I did previously interview at a FHIR related place a few years ago, but it seemed to be quite far off from the medical or biological side of things, more about billing and administration.