Medical Informatics at BMI
Medical Informatics can be defined as a discipline concerned with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care (American Medical Informatics Association, 2007).
The Medical Informatics program at The Ohio State University Department of Biomedical Informatics currently focuses upon three main areas:
The observation and modeling of workflow in clinical and research environments to determine strategies for optimization and the introduction of information technologies
The development of advanced methods and technologies to support multi-dimensional biomedical data acquisition, integration, and presentation.
The development of integrated information technology platforms targeting the clinical and translational research domains.
Our faculty, staff, and collaborators are engaged in a broad variety of Medical Informatics projects, including the ongoing development of The Ohio State University Medical Center Information Warehouse active participation in the NCIs caBIG consortium and CLL Research Consortium , and emerging projects in the areas of translational research workflow modeling and the automated identification of clinical research participants under the auspices of the newly formed Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS). The Ohio State University Medical Center and the Department of Biomedical Informatics provides a unique and comprehensive living laboratory for these and many other Medical Informatics initiatives.