Biomedical informatics definition and areas of application
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Biomedical informatics (BMI) is playing a more and more important role in healthcare. That notwithstanding the majority of health professionals don't know the real meaning and borders of BMI and its main areas of application.
Informatics is the science that studies the representation, acquisition, storage, processing and communication of information. The application of Informatics in the biomedical area is defined Biomedical Informatics.
The American Health Information Management Association and the American Medical Informatics Association define Biomedical Informatics as “the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.”
Major areas of application of BMI are Bioinformatics, Imaging Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics and Consumer Health Informatics
The paper discusses these issues and the main areas of application of Biomedical informatics.
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