University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Biomedical Informatics: The science of managing information for health care, research, education, and administration by applying, integrating, and evaluating information technology along with its associated policies, procedures, and organizational cultures.
An interdisciplinary science, Biomedical Informatics extends across the domains of other sciences, creating sub-specialty fields within the field of biomedical informatics as shown below:
The field of biomedical informatics is still a young one. Therefore you may find many different definitions. The American Medical Informatics Association has a list of definitions compiled from various sources. Additional definitions of medical and other fields of informatics were compiled by the IAIMS Planning Office at the UNM Health Sciences Center and can be found here.
