ABSTRACT
Biomedical informatics is an emergent field that applies informatics fields to medicine. One of the primary issues that healthcare researchers encounter today is how to make use of the enormous amount of electronic healthcare data. Acquiring, storing, synchronizing, integrating, analyzing, and retrieving useful information from patient data remains extremely difficult because of inadequate computational power and need for specific software, incongruity between monitoring equipment, and inadequate data storage. While the recent advances in computer storage systems, processing power, and data-analysis algorithms in modern Clinical Information Systems made the aforementioned task easier. Bioinformatics addresses these problems and aims to create integrated storage systems and analysis tools to convert the biological data into meaningful information. This helps us to predict the disease and paves the way for drug discovery in precision medicine. This chapter reviews major strategies, challenges, and current developments in information management, storage space, and information retrieval that are key to the effective use of bioinformatics in precision medicine by fulfilling these goals.
