Biomedical Informatics: Discovery and Impact

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Research Areas

Clinical information systems—workflow, documentation, decision support, visualization, data modeling, transitions of care, health information exchange, image informatics

Data mining—natural language processing and generation, information theoretic approach to EHR, machine learning, pharmacovigilance, image processing

Clinical research informatics—facilitation of team-based research, community research networks, automated patient recruitment

Patient-centered care—personal health records, community-based quality improvement, chronic disease management, health communication (literacy, news)

Telemedicine—home-based care, mobile computing

Public health informatics—syndromic surveillance, epidemic modeling, public health reporting, public health systems

International health informatics—broad dissemination of electronic health records

Systems biology—deciphering regulatory networks, post-transcriptional modification, mechanisms of cancer

Structural biology—molecular dynamics, protein folding, viral assembly

Human factors—usability, cognitive evaluation