MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Medical informatics focuses on the evolving role that computation and data science, sociotechnical theories, and new information technologies now have in transforming biomedical research, clinical decision making, and ultimately the delivery of healthcare and development of policies. The discipline focuses on the uses of data to help clinicians and scientists improve human health and provide healthcare, developing new computational methods and using them to generate new biomedical knowledge. An inherently interdisciplinary field, medical informatics exists at the nexus of computer science and related engineering disciplines; information sciences; and clinical medicine. The field is thus also diverse in the sources and types of data it deals with, ranging from the electronic health record (EHR) and imaging, to more contemporary omics and mobile health (mHealth); and is agnostic to the clinical domains in which it intersects. Example areas of research include (but are not limited to):..

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