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	Medical Informatics Fellowship — Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The medical informatics fellowship is designed for physicians, other clinicians holding doctorates, and PhDs in relevant fields, with previous computer experience who desire to become part of a community of scholars and clinicians at the forefront of medical and technological innovations.
		While medical informatics is the principal focus of the program, fellows have the opportunity to explore bioinformatics and medical imaging, two fields to which medical informatics has many strong natural links.
		Emphasis on testing and measurement is as important to informatics as it is to the rest of science and at least a third of the curriculum of the medical informatics fellowship is dedicated to research methodology.
	www.regenstrief.org /medinformatics/fellowship (1041 words)

	VUMC Department of Biomedical Informatics (FAQ)
		"Medical informatics is the field that concerns itself with the cognitive, information processing, and communication tasks of medical practice, education, and research, including the information science and the technology to support these tasks.
		Academic units of medical informatics are being established at a number of medical schools, medical informatics professionals are being sought to serve on faculties and hospital staffs, and medical informatics is emerging as a distinct academic entity."
		Medical informatics is a non-exclusionary term that subsumes all health-related informatics sub-disciplines (e.g., Nursing and Dental Informatics).
	www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /dbmi/informatics.html (1858 words)

	UKHiS - What is Medical Informatics?
		The terms 'medical informatics' and 'health informatics' have been variously defined, but can be best understood as the understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health.
		'Health informatics' is now tending to replace the previously commoner term 'medical informatics', reflecting a widespread concern to define an information agenda for health services which recognises the role of citizens as agents in their own care, as well as the major information-handling roles of the non-medical healthcare professions.
		Twenty years ago medical informatics was seen largely in terms of the computerisation of healthcare.
	www.bmis.org /what_is_mi.html (295 words)

	Health informatics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, medicine and health care.
		Medical informatics began to take off in the US in the 1950s with the rise of the microchip and computers.
		The Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI) was established in 1993 [2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medical_informatics (1485 words)

	Medical Informatics
		The essence of telemedicine is the exchange of information at a distance, whether that information is voice, an image, elements of a medical record, or commands to a surgical robot.
		Medical research is also taking advantage of the web as journals begin to appear on the web in preference to or in advance of print.
		Some researchers have explicitly asserted that building such a singular and "correct" medical language is their goal.(ref 32,33) This task emphasises two clear requirements: the ability for the terminological language to cover all the concepts that need to be reasoned about and the independence of the terminology from any particular reasoning task.
	www.bmj.com /archive/6991ed1.htm (4634 words)

	MSOE's M.S. in Medical Informatics
		Medical Informatics is the applied science at the junction of the disciplines of medicine, business, and information technology, which supports the health care delivery process and promotes measurable improvements in both quality of care and cost-effectiveness.
		It is not the goal of the MSMI program to comprehensively cross train individuals from one medical informatics domain for another.
		The medical informatics program benefits from the guidance of its external advisory committee, a standing committee of business and industrial leaders who help ensure program offerings stay current.
	www.msoe.edu /business/mi (456 words)

	Stanford Medical Informatics - Stanford University School of Medicine
		Informatics is the study of information: its structure, its communication, and its use.
		As all aspects of science and society become increasingly information intensive, the need to understand, to apply, and to create new methods for modeling, managing, and acquiring information has never been greater.
		Stanford Medical Informatics is the academic home to scientists and trainees who develop and evaluate new methodologies for acquiring, representing, processing, and managing knowledge and data related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences.
	www.smi.stanford.edu (185 words)

	Research - Medical Informatics
		We anticipate that informatics researchers in all of these areas will be collaborating with each other on research, teaching, and other institutional initiatives throughout their careers.
		Information about other informatics training programs funded by the National Library of Medicine can be found at this NLM link.
		The CBB Translational Informatics focus emphasizes the intersection of bioinformatics and disease, and includes topics from both bioinformatics and clinical informatics.
	ycmi.med.yale.edu /research/index.html (912 words)

	Life Science Informatics Center- Medical Informatics
		Medical Informatics is the intersection of health care and technology.
		Individuals with backgrounds in healthcare or information technology fields are encouraged to apply.
		The BCC Medical Informatics Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of 30 credits.
	www.bcc.ctc.edu /informatics/medical.htm (314 words)

	DMICE: Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medical informatics is the field concerned with the acquisition, storage, and use of information in health and biomedicine.
		Clinical epidemiology is the application of the logical and quantitative concepts and methods of epidemiology to problems (diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and preventive) encountered in the clinical delivery of care to individual patients.
		The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology is an academic and research department in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine.
	www.ohsu.edu /bicc-informatics (223 words)

	IMEDI -- National Institute for Medical Informatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The National Institute for Medical Informatics is six associated research centers: The ER One Institute, The National Biosurveillance Testbed, The Medical Media Lab, The Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Disease (CBCED), The National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics (www.ncemi.org), and the Simulation Training and Education Lab (SiTEL).
		The Medical Media Lab is the first hospital-based institute addressing the need to close the gap between available and applied technologies in the field of medicine.
		Mining medical information in multi-dimensional space to discover new methods of detecting emerging diseases, detecting bioterrorism events, and uncovering new discoveries from medical data.
	www.imedi.org (1538 words)

	Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medical Informatics and The Internet in Medicine promotes the application of analysis, inference and reasoning to medical information, including expert systems and the use of artificial intelligence techniques.
		There is no restriction on the kind of medical information dealt with - it may be hospital management information, patient records, clinical examinations, laboratory results, physiological measurements, medical images of all kinds, primary care information and epidemiology.
		The Journal is also concerned with the gathering and organization of data and knowledge, and with applications to medical education.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/14639238.html (108 words)

	Introduction to Ethics & Medical Informatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Trying to determine the scope of Ethics and Medical Informatics is much like the poem of "The Blind Men And The Elephant," [2] where six blind men are each asked to describe an elephant.
		The field of Medical Informatics Ethics is a merger of several different areas of study.
		The "Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes" chapter from the MINF 510 Text book by Goodman and Miller [1] helped to identify their views of the major issues in medical informatics.
	www.journeyofhearts.org /jofh/jofh_old/minf_528/intro.htm (849 words)

	eMedicine - Medical Informatics In Emergency Medicine : Article by Rick Kulkarni, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medical informatics is the use of information technology, computer systems, and communication tools to enhance and improve all aspects of patient care, medical education, and medical research.
		The study of medical informatics has been underway for more than 40 years, but it is only recently that clinicians have begun to accept information technology as a means of enhancing patient care.
		The authors, editors, and publisher of this journal have used their best efforts to provide information that is up-to-date and accurate and is generally accepted within medical standards at the time of publication.
	www.emedicine.com /emerg/topic879.htm (3194 words)

	Medical Informatics for Better and Safer Health Care
		Medical informatics deals with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care.
		In addition, although medications may have worked well in tightly controlled clinical trials, physicians also need to keep informed about their effectiveness when they are used regularly in "real" clinical practice.
		When physicians ordered a test or medication on the computer system, the computer displayed the cost of the test and whether it had been ordered previously, made medication recommendations, gave warnings about dangerous drug interactions, and showed the patient's active orders, allergies, diagnoses, vital signs, and test results.
	www.ahrq.gov /data/informatics/informatria.htm (2992 words)

	DMICE: About - What is Medical Informatics? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are in an era of uncontrolled health care costs, compromised patient safety, and a lack of utilization of information technology applications that have the potential to improve the situation.
		The discipline that focuses on the acquisition, storage, and use of information in health and biomedicine is called medical informatics.
		The integrative discipline that arises from the synergistic application of computational, informational, cognitive, organizational, and other sciences whose primary focus is the acquisition, storage, and use of information in the health/biomedical domain.
	www.ohsu.edu /dmice/about/whatis.cfm (633 words)

	Telemedicine and Telehealth Medical Informatics Links
		A U.S. association in the United States dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
		The American Medical Informatics Association NI working group aims to promote the advancement of nursing informatics within the larger multidisciplinary context of health informatics.
		The medical informatics and technology applications consortium (MITAC) is a unique NASA Research Partnership Center (RPC), established to develop, evaluate, and promote information and medical technologies for space flight and ground applications.
	tie.telemed.org /links/informatics.asp (697 words)

	Medical Informatics Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medical Informatics, as defined by Dr. Edward Schortliffe is, "… the rapidly developing scientific field that deals with resources, devices and formalized methods for optimizing the storage, retrieval and management of biomedical information for problem solving and decision making".
		The Medical Informatics curriculum is designed to be merged imperceptibly with the curriculum of the Medical School, i.e., it will be embedded in the existing courses.
		Survey course directors to determine which informatics skills are desirable in each of the courses/clerkship (see Appendix 2a – Identification of Required Informatics Skills for Each Course/Clerkship and Appendix 2b – Survey results from course directors).
	www.meddean.luc.edu /lumen/MedED/informatics/curric.htm (1448 words)

	Opportunities for Training and Education Fact Sheet
		Medical Informatics Elective: The Computer Science Branch, LHNCBC, conducts an eight-week elective in Medical Informatics, as part of NIH's Clinical Electives Program.
		Medical Informatics Training Program: LHNCBC conducts a Medical Informatics Training Program to provide support for faculty members, postdoctoral scientists, graduate students, undergraduate students for research participation at the Center for visits of a few months to several years.
		The audience are those medical librarians interested in medical informatics who desire an introduction to the UMLS® and an understanding of the issues and practical considerations involved in selecting and using appropriate controlled vocabularies for a range of biomedical applications.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /pubs/factsheets/trainedu.html (1249 words)

	Medical Informatics
		It's unlikely that a patient monitor in ICU would be thought of as a computer, but that is exactly what it is. A modern monitor system may have more than a half million lines of program embedded within it to drive the processing and presentation of physiological signals onto the screen [4].
		While there is self-evident benefit in the use of the computer to manage the administrative side of clinical practice, and with signal processing tasks like imaging, many practitioners remain unconvinced of a more general role for such technology in the practice of medicine itself [10].
		For example the Institute of Medicine in the US sees the electronic medical record (EMR) as a key method for ensuring that the delivery of health care is both of uniformly high quality as well as ensuring that it is cost effective [8].
	www.coiera.com /papers/mja/mja.doc.html (3429 words)

	IMIA Medical Informatics Association
		The International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989.
		IMIA plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of healthcare and research in medical, health and bio informatics.
		A member is a society, a group of societies, or an appropriate body, which is representative of the medical, and health informatics activities within that country.
	www.imia.org /about.html (1079 words)

	Medical Professional: Informatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources.
		AMIA "is the premier association in the United States dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration." AMIA's mission is "to advance the public interest through charitable, scientific, literary, and educational activities."
		The IWG's mission is to promote the development of Internet-based tools for the medical community and provide educational opportunites for IWG members.
	www.obgyn.net /english/informat/informat.htm (158 words)

	Regenstrief Institute Medical Informatics — Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Regenstrief Institute is an international leader in medical informatics standards and strongly committed to open source development.
		The Institute of Medicine has identified information technology, including medical informatics, as a priority area of study to improve the quality of the U.S. health care system.
		RMRS has served as a dynamic model for medical records systems around the country and is an intrinsic part of the medical care at the IU teaching hospitals where orders are written by physicians through the Regenstrief Gopher order entry system and results are retrieved from the RMRS.
	www.regenstrief.org /medinformatics (406 words)

	NLM/MBL Medical Informatics Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These week-long survey courses are designed to familiarize individuals with the application of information science and computer technologies in health care, biomedical research, and health professions education.
		The conceptual components will include principles of database design, human-computer interfaces, medical vocabularies and coding systems, medical decision analysis methods, evaluation methods in medical informatics, and strategies for designing and managing clinical information systems.
		This is a National Library of Medicine fellowship program directed at medical educators, medical librarians, medical administrators, and young faculty who are not currently knowledgeable but can become agents of change in their institutions.
	courses.mbl.edu /Medical_Informatics (220 words)

	AMIA - About Informatics
		Medical informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care.
		While the field of medical informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialties and disciplines, medical informatics has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that have set it apart from other disciplines and specialties.
		Find information on available grants, awarded grants, and research being conducted in the industry.
	www.amia.org /informatics (184 words)

	TICR Medical Informatics
		Information technologies are transforming the way we research, produce, and deliver health care, presenting both opportunities and pitfalls for conducting clinical research.
		This course is an introduction to the most important technical, clinical, and social aspects of health information technology as they relate to clinical research.
		Be familiar with trends in consumer health informatics and with prospects for successfully using health information technology in the care setting for care or research
	www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu /courses/schedule/med_informatics.html (252 words)

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