Biomedical informatics
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Biomedical informatics is a discipline related to bioinformatics and has roots in medical informatics or healthcare informatics. It studies the use of information technology and advanced research computing in the practice of biomedical sciences and medicine.
The major areas encompassed by it are clinical informatics, dental informatics, nursing informatics, veterinary informatics, pharmacy informatics, medical imaging informatics, public health informatics, proteomics, genomics and drug design.
[edit] See also
- Biomedical technology
- Biomedical engineering
- Bioengineering
- Bioinformatics
- Computer science
- Informatics
[edit] External links
- The University of Texas 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 University Dept. of Medical Informatics
- Stanford University Biomedical Informatics Training Program
- The Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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