Biomedical informatics

Biomedical Informatics encompasses both Medical Informatics (or Healthcare Informatics) and Bioinformatics. Universities like Columbia [1], Vanderbilt [2], Pittsburgh [3] have departments of that name. The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative that fosters distributed collaborations in biomedical science by utilizing information technology innovations [4]. NIH also maintains a Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid or caBIG [5]. On the other hand, Elsevier publishes the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, edited by Shortliffe [6].