Biomedical Informatics – A Confluence of Disciplines?

Hasman, Arie; Ammenwerth, Elske; Dickhaus, H.; Knaup, Petra; Lovis, Christian; Mantas, John; Maojo, Víctor; Martín-Sánchez, Fernando; Musen, Mark A.; Patel, Vimla L.; Surján, György; Talmon, Jan L.; Sarkar, Indra Neil

doi:10.3414/me11-06-0003

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“…These days, it is also often termed "biomedical informatics" [2] or "biomedical and health informatics" [3]. We will use the term "biomedical informatics" throughout this paper, as this is the name of our program at UMIT.…”

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Job Profiles of Biomedical Informatics Graduates

Ammenwerth

Hackl²

2015

Methods Inf Med

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SummaryBackground: Biomedical informatics programs exist in many countries. Some analyses of the skills needed and of recommendations for curricular content for such programs have been published. However, not much is known of the job profiles and job careers of their graduates. Objectives: To analyse the job profiles and job careers of 175 graduates of the biomedical informatics bachelor and master program of the Tyrolean university UMIT. Methods: Survey of all biomedical informatics students who graduated from UMIT between 2001 and 2013. Results: Information is available for 170 graduates. Eight percent of graduates are male. Of all bachelor graduates, 86% started a master program. Of all master graduates, 36% started a PhD. The job profiles are quite diverse: at the time of the survey, 35% of all master graduates worked in the health IT industry, 24% at research institutions, 9% in hospitals, 9% as medical doctors, 17% as informaticians outside the health care sector, and 6% in other areas. Overall, 68% of the graduates are working as biomedical informaticians. The results of the survey indicate a good job situation for the graduates. Conclusions:The job opportunities for biomedical informaticians who graduated with a bachelor or master degree from UMIT seem to be quite good. The majority of graduates are working as biomedical informaticians. A larger number of comparable surveys of graduates from other biomedical informatics programs would help to enhance our knowledge about careers in biomedical informatics.

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Job Profiles of Biomedical Informatics Graduates

Ammenwerth

Hackl²

2015

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“…Future programs and degrees in nanomedicine -and nanoinformatics -will have to incorporate a much broader range of research to address the multidisciplinary types of questions involved. Finally, nanoinformaticians -in analogy to what has been proposed for biomedical informaticians by scholars such as Mark Musen -will have to act as "information brokers," 118 connecting people with different scientific backgrounds and interests.…”

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Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine

Maojo¹,

Fritts²,

Iglesia³

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Over a decade ago, nanotechnologists began research on applications of nanomaterials for medicine. This research has revealed a wide range of different challenges, as well as many opportunities. Some of these challenges are strongly related to informatics issues, dealing, for instance, with the management and integration of heterogeneous information, defining nomenclatures, taxonomies and classifications for various types of nanomaterials, and research on new modeling and simulation techniques for nanoparticles. Nanoinformatics has recently emerged in the USA and Europe to address these issues. In this paper, we present a review of nanoinformatics, describing its origins, the problems it addresses, areas of interest, and examples of current research initiatives and informatics resources. We suggest that nanoinformatics could accelerate research and development in nanomedicine, as has occurred in the past in other fields. For instance, biomedical informatics served as a fundamental catalyst for the Human Genome Project, and other genomic and -omics projects, as well as the translational efforts that link resulting molecular-level research to clinical problems and findings.

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“…Bioinformatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that manages the storing, repossession, sharing and best use of data and skills, for problem-solving and decision-making purposes (Hasman et al, 2011). The development and renewal of bioinformatics has provided us with the opportunity to mine large databases and uncover more meaningful solutions (Cheng, 2018).…”

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