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Innovations in Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
How are we as a country doing in our delivery of health care? Even if you're happy with your access to medical care and the work of your doctor's office or local hospital, I bet you would also acknowledge there's significant room for improvement in the system overall. Studying health care systems and policies and … Continue reading NLM Delivers for Health Services Research
The future of scientific communication and health information is shining brightly these days. New models of communication—videos and data sets and Jupyter Notebooks, to name a few—bring the excitement of discovery, the potential of in-the-moment reproducibility, and an accelerated pace to scholarly discourse. But what is NLM's role in an era of memes, data warehouses, … Continue reading From Collection to Commitment
To say biomedical informatics is a rapidly changing field might be an understatement. Or a truism. Probably both. Given its interdisciplinary nature and the myriad ways each of those disciplines is changing, it's no wonder. From advances in molecular biology to the gigantic leaps we're making in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, the fields that … Continue reading Training for Lifelong Learning
Guest post by Dr. George Hripcsak, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Medical Informatics Services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Campus. Biomedical informatics is an exciting field that addresses information in biomedicine. At over half a century, it is older than many realize. Looking back, I … Continue reading The Evolution of Data Science Training in Biomedical Informatics