Benefits of Bioinformatics and Health Informatics for Health Science Research

To understand diseases, all layers of information need to be considered. 

Applied Informatics to Research in Biomedical Science can be considered as a hierarchy ascending from:

 

For example, the following diagram shows how different type of data belong to the Bioinformatics and Health Informatics:

Source: The New Role of Biomedical Informatics in the Age of Digital Medicine

Research Areas of Informatics applied to Biomedical Science

Based on AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), there are five major research areas of application of informatics to Biomedical Sciences. These are:

  1. Bio-informatics

  2. Clinical Research Informatics

  3. Clinical Informatics

  4. Consumer Health Informatics

  5. Public Health Informatics

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