A scientific field focused on the development of software applications (e.g., electronic medical records, automated health education) that improve health and wellness and the quality of care by facilitating tailored health communications and the diagnosis, treatment and management of patient health; use of information management technology to overcome the limitations of traditional methods for gathering, recording, storing, managing and communicating health information.
The combination of computer science, information science, and the health sciences (medicine) designed to assist in the management and processing of data to support the delivery of health care. A simple definition: Computer applications in medical care. A more complex definition: Biomedical Informatics is an emerging discipline that has been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. The end objective is the coalescing of data, knowledge, and the tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge to the decision-making process, at the time and place that a decision needs to be made. The focus on the structure and algorithms necessary to manipulate the information is what separates Biomedical Informatics from other medical disciplines where information content is the focus.
Is a scientific discipline that concerns itself with the cognitive, information processing and communication tasks of healthcare practice, education and research, including the information science and technology to support these tasks.
The Medical Informatics Program builds on the resources of the Regenstrief Institute and IU-based Regenstrief Medical Records System, one of the world's largest and oldest clinical medical databases. Expansion of this system to include information from all Indianapolis hospitals is under way. IU researchers also received a $1.04 million grant to develop a new Indiana Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing.
An emerging discipline that melds the data analysis tools of computing with medical information and the provision of health care services.
Medical informatics is the "field that concerns itself with the cognitive, information processing and communication tasks of medical practice, education and research, including the information science and the technology to support these tasks." [Source: R.A. Greenes and E.G. Shortliffe. Medical informatics: an emerging academic discipline and institutional priority. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) February 23, 1990; 263(8):1114-1120.] In practice, medical informatics is the application of technology to all aspects of health care information. It involves both the art and science of organizing medical knowledge and applying such knowledge for the purpose of preventing human disease and suffering. Technology is pervasive and necessary to handle and manipulate the growing body of medical knowledge. Technology winds its way throughout health care--from processing results of medical research to applying knowledge in clinical practice; from accessing and processing patient records to making decisions in evidence based practice; from telemedicine to knowledge-based and decision-support systems.
use of computers in the practice of medicine, ranging from clinical systems, information resources, telemedicine, etc.
A field of study concerned with the broad range of issues in the management and use of biomedical information, including medical computing and the study of the nature of medical information itself.[57