What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?

This page contains materials that answer a question I am frequently asked: What is Biomedical and Health Informatics? In addition to providing many links to key sites around the Web for biomedical and health informatics, it also provides a voice-over-Powerpoint lecture (MP4 format - accessible from all computers and mobile devices) that addresses the question from my perspective. The slides of the lecture are also provided in PDF handout format, with another PDF file of references cited. The lectures are derived from content of my courses in the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the 10x10 ("ten by ten") course I offer in partnership with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). (The online lectures here use the same technology that we use in our courses.) This page is also used as the index for materials in the curriculum for the OHSU Biomedical Informatics Summer Internship.

The content is divided into segments, each of which is an MP4 lectures. Each group has a PDF bibliography (which includes more than the references cited in the included lectures.)

Overview of Field

• Definitions and Historical Perspectives of Biomedical and Health Informatics (1/2) (25:23)

• Definitions and Historical Perspectives of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2/2) (21:43)

• Definitions and Historical Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (20:21)

• Resources - Organizations, Information, Education (22:55)

• Bibliography

Electronic Health Record

• Clinical Data (19:50)

• Examples of the Electronic Health Record (24:12)

• Bibliography

Artificial Intelligence

• Machine Learning (27:37)

• Predictive AI (30:53)

• Generative AI (1/2) (18:26)

• Generative AI (2/2) (31:58)

• Bibliography

Information Retrieval

• Information Retrieval Process, Information, and Challenges (1/2) (25:26)

• Information Retrieval Process, Information, and Challenges (2/2) (28:19)

• Information Retrieval Content (27:47)

• Generative Information Retrieval (18:47)

• Bibliography

Clinical Research Informatics

• Overview of Biomedical Research (20:15)

• Clinical Research Informatics (1/2) (17:09)

• Clinical Research Informatics (2/2) (21:21)

• Bibliography