Biomedical informatics is a discipline related to Bioinformatics and has its 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.

See also

• Biomedical technology
• Biomedical engineering
• Bioengineering
• Bioinformatics

External links

• BIRN The Biomedical Informatics Research Network.
• Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid or caBIG.
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Biomedical Informatics.
• The Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
• Columbia University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• Pittsburgh University Ctr. for Biomedical Informatics
• University of Washington Div. of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• The Ohio State University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
• The Arizona State University Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Bioengineering | Medical informatics | Bioinformatics | Interdisciplinary fields