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Dr. Javed Mostafa, director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program,demonstrates the extensive searching and tracking capabilitiesof a new database program developed for UNC Hospitals.‘CHIP’ ping inby grace joyalphotos by elizabeth mendozadesign by charlotte taylorHospitals teeming withfiling cabinets and loosepapers will soon be relicsof the past as UNC-CH’sSchool of Information andLibrary Science unveils anew graduate certificateprogram in healthinformatics.According to a U.S. Department of Labor report, the averageAmerican will change jobs 11 times between the ages of 18 and 44.More than three-fifths of these jobs are held from ages 18 to 27, and most arewithin a similar career field.Emily Pfaff can relate to the former—after a few years of post-college work inthe publishing business in the Northeast, Pfaff needed a change of scenery.But as for staying within the same field? Not so much.Pfaff moved down south to explore a career in the UNC-Chapel Hill psychologydepartment where she discovered a new field unrelated to her undergraduatedegree in Russian and eastern European studies: health informatics.www.blueandwhitemag.com 13