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Department of Family Medicine
Medical Informatics

What is medical informatics?

Basically it is using computer applications in medical care. A more advanced definition is that it is the use of computer applications to gather data and manage clinical information. Medical Informatics is the collection of electronic tools that enable the clinician to apply that data and knowledge in the decision-making process, at the time and place that a medical decision needs to be made.

How do I learn more about medical informatics?

Greenes RA. Shortliffe EH. Medical informatics. An emerging academic discipline and institutional priority. JAMA.263(8):1990 Feb 23.

Medical Informatics WWW Links:

• AMIA American Medical Informatics Association

• American Telemedicine Organization

• ARTEMIS–Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Informatics at West Virginia University

• Benedum Oncology Informatics Center - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

• Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Columbia University Department of Medical Informatics

• Duke University Medical Center Division of Medical Informatics

• Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University

• IMIA International Medical Informatics Association

• Medical Informatics Objectives AAMC's Medical Informatics Advisory Panel report.

• Medical Informatics Section of the Medical Library Association

• MIDAS Consortium - The Medical Informatics and Decision Science Consortium (Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)

• The MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group

• Oregon Health Sciences University Informatics Program

• Section on Medical Informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine

• University of Florida–Office of Medical Informatics

• University of Minnesota Health Informatics Home Page

• University of Utah School of Medicine Medical Informatics Dept.

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center Division of Biomedical Informatics

• Yale Center for Medical Informatics

Additional Personal Digital Assistant website:
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

Contact Information

Research and Faculty Development  |  Department of Family Medicine
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Please email comments, suggestions or questions to:
Stan Sulkowski, ssulkowski@mcg.edu.

January 10, 2008