ABSTRACT
Biomedical informatics is the information science of healthcare information systems. Informaticians aim to improve healthcare through the creation of interoperable, networked computerized clinical information systems (CIS), and large electronic biomedical data sets, registries, databases and repositories. The field attracts practitioners from clinical, computer science, management of information systems (MIS)/information technology (IT) and library and information science backgrounds. Subcategories such as clinical and nurse informaticians focus on applied work implementing and evaluating CIS. Others, e.g., translational bioinformaticians; ontologists; natural language processing and text-mining researchers, develop methods for data modeling, representation, storage, processing, retrieval and machine-learning decision support.
