Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

What would disruptive innovation look like in your field? Let me take the innovative angle first. For innovation, it’s really all about doing things that you couldn’t do before, or as an informaticist ...

As the government ramps up its efforts to make a more connected and proactive national healthcare system, numerous technological challenges have presented themselves. Not the least of which is getting ...

Michigan Tech's MS in Health Informatics offers a flexible, challenging curriculum that can be completed both on-campus and entirely online. The program utilizes a robust cloud-based computing ...

David K. Vawdrey, PhD, who recently joined Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System as its chief data informatics officer, weighs in on his new role, biggest challenges in healthcare data analytics ...

Biologic agents themselves have also become more complex, going beyond simply producing naturally occurring macromolecules to altering or modifying them for increased efficiency or more specific ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

Data-driven science represents a transformative paradigm in materials science. Both data-driven materials science and informatics encompass systematic knowledge extraction from materials datasets.

Consumers have greater access to data, information, and tools to support the management of their health than ever before. While the sheer quantity of these resources has increased exponentially over ...

Develop the science of data synthesis to join up the myriad varieties of health information, insist Julian H. Elliott, Jeremy Grimshaw and colleagues. If you are wondering whether exposure to some ...