Yet BMI has become a discipline, gradually moving from a variety of ad hoc collections of interdisciplinary programs towards a more formally defined specialty, recognized both as a subspecialty option for many fields of medicine and as a concentration in engineering programs. No wonder it is difficult to find (or write) a text or reference book that encompasses the field. It studies, models and designs data, processes, policies, organizations, and systems. It ranges in methodology from hardcore mathematical modeling to descriptive observations that use “soft” methods such as those of sociology. In scale, it spans across genes, cells, tissues, organ systems, individual patients, populations, and the world’s medical ecology. Dedication To Terry Steele-Kalet, my wife and best friend, who kept me on track when things looked impossible, and stood by me through the most difficult times as well as the best of times.īiomedical informatics (BMI) is an extraordinarily broad discipline.
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