Biomedical informatics

Biomedical informatics is a term used to describe the broad discipline that encompasses such subdomains as bioinformatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, etc, and is most commonly used in this way in the USA. It is sometimes referred to as medical informatics or health informatics, and oustide the USA health informatics tends to be the preferred term for the larger domain encompassing the breadth of informatics as applied to health and healthcare. In the USA, the health informatics name has been discouraged in recent years because it tends to leave out the focus on biological sciences and the important subfield of biomedical informatics known as bioinformatics. Biomedical Informatics is concerned with the study and application of information technology and computer science as well as decision making, human problem solving, cognitive science, standards, policies, and human factors in the practice of biomedical science, medicine and healthcare.

The major areas encompassed by it are clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, dental informatics, nursing informatics, veterinary informatics, pharmacy informatics, imaging informatics, public health informatics, proteomics, genomics and drug design.

See also

• Biomedical technology
• Biomedical engineering
• Bioengineering
• Bioinformatics
• Computer science
• Informatics

External links

• Nova Southeastern University Master's Degree in Biomedical Informatics.
• The Northwestern University Master's Degree in Medical Informatics.
• Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University five year, dual degree program in Biomedical Informatics.
• The University of Texas Biomedical Informatics Laboratory
• School of Health Information Sciences at Houston
• BIRN The Biomedical Informatics Research Network.
• Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid or caBIG.
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Centre for Health Informatics University of New South Wales
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Biomedical Informatics.
• The Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
• The University of Utah Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• The Arizona State University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• Columbia University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• University of Washington Div. of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• The Ohio State University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University
• Stanford University Biomedical Informatics Training Program
• The Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• The University of Pavia Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics - Italy