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Medical Informatics "Informatics is the science underlying the acquisition, maintenance, retrieval, and application of biomedical knowledge and information to improve patient care, education, research and administration." - Charles Friedman, Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh Organizations American Medical Informatics Association International Medical Informatics Association
Selected Areas of Medical Informatics Research Clinical Information Systems The use of information technology to facilitate the sharing of information
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Linking clinical databases to molecular databases; representing, mining,
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The use of electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes and the health care decision-making process.
Disease Surveillance/Bioterrorism Surveillance and Emergency Response Data analysis in real time for patterns indicative of infectious disease outbreaks.
Data Standards and Enterprise Data Exchange Provides standards for the exchange, management and integration of data that support clinical patient care and the management, delivery and evaluation of healthcare services.
Education of health care practitioners about informatics and information technology; research and development of computer-based tools to support education in the health professions.
Computer-based medical imaging throughout the health care environment.
Studies from a patient/consumer perspective about the use of electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes and the health care decision-making process.
Effective and efficient access to large, heterogeneous, distributed, text and databases.
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