Biomedical informatics
Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics (pronunciation: /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛdɪkəl ɪnfərˈmætɪks/) is an interdisciplinary field that applies computer science and information technology to the field of health care and life sciences. It involves the efficient organization, analysis, management, and use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
Etymology
The term "Biomedical Informatics" is derived from the Greek words "bios" (life), "medicus" (pertaining to physicians), and "informatics" (the science of processing data).
Related Terms
- Health Informatics: An interdisciplinary field that uses health information technology to improve health care via any combination of higher quality, higher efficiency, new opportunities, and reduced expense.
- Clinical Informatics: A sub-field of biomedical informatics that focuses on technologies that improve clinical care.
- Bioinformatics: A field of study that uses computation to extract knowledge from biological data.
- Medical Informatics: The intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. This field deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.
- Public Health Informatics: The application of informatics in areas of public health, including surveillance, prevention, preparedness, and health promotion.
- Nursing Informatics: A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice.
See Also
- Health Information Technology
- Electronic Health Record
- Personal Health Record
- Medical Imaging
- Telemedicine
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Biomedical informatics
- Wikipedia's article - Biomedical informatics
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