The healthcare industry has emerged to be very data-intensive. How much, you ask? Well, it would require 2.3 zettabytes of data (or 2.3 trillion DVDs) to capture fully the data that the industry ...

At the intersection of healthcare and information technology is health informatics — the science that guides the collection, analysis and use of data. Why is health informatics important? It helps to ...

The best research in medical informatics necessarily draws on many types of training, and, perhaps for this reason, it sometimes goes by slightly different names. "Some of the labs around the country ...