It’s All Informatics to Me
HealthIT Answers June 11, 2023
Data Analytics, Data Science, Digital Health, AI, and Whatever is Next
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU
Blog: Informatics Professor
Twitter: @williamhersh
In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting academic funding opportunities, new courses or degree programs, and even academic centers or institutes bearing their names.
I suppose I have some skin in this game because I have spent my life’s work among those developing the field that I consider to go by the over-arching term of this all, biomedical...