It’s All Informatics to Me: Data Analytics, Data Science, Digital Health, AI, and Whatever is Next

Informatics Professor May 22, 2023
William Hersh, MD

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 and health informatics. My concern for the new areas and their names has been their often ignoring the historical and current...

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