BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS TO ENHANCE CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DECISION MAKING

The field of biomedical informatics encompasses the acquisition, management, and analysis of biomedical data, information, and knowledge to improve human health and well-being. Research within this diverse field can include clinical informatics, focusing on the individual patient, and public health informatics, focusing on the population as the patient. In addition, cross-cutting areas such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be utilized across these different disciplines to promote problem solving and decision making. This session will discuss various research efforts in biomedical informatics to promote decision making within clinical and public health environments.