Keynote
Speaker Edward
H. Shortliffe, MD, PhDDean,
University of Arizona Collegeof
Medicine – PhoenixProfessor
of Basic Medical Sciences, Professor
of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona
State University
Biomedical Informatics: Its Relationship to
Imaging Research and Practice
Biomedical informatics is the scientific field
that deals with biomedical information, data, and knowledge – their storage,
retrieval and optimal use for problem solving and decision making. The
field has broad applications across all of biomedicine, ranging from
molecular and cellular processes (bioinformatics) to patient-oriented tasks
(clinical informatics) and population-based policy and analysis (public
health informatics). Imaging informatics is accordingly an important fourth
area of biomedical informatics application, with a wide variety of topics
that draw upon core methods from the discipline.
In this presentation, Dr. Shortliffe will
review the nature of the field, emphasizing its relationship to the world of
imaging and clinical care. Practical issues in the use of informatics
techniques will be emphasized, ranging from the need for more individuals
trained at the intersection of computer science and medicine to the
recurring barriers to systems implementation and use in both inpatient and
outpatient settings. A major goal of the presentation will be to discuss
how imaging informatics relates to the core science of informatics and to
identify opportunities for synergies in the efforts of clinical and imaging
informatics experts in both research and practice settings.
The Roger
A. Bauman Award for Best Student Paper will be presented
at the Closing General Session.
