Informatics Academic Programs

Professional Development
A number of universities and institutions offer academic programs that lead to a degree or certificate in informatics. This list is broken down into several categories:

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Informatics Terms

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) - a U.S. not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching and research.

Bioinformatics - involves the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry and biochemistry to solve biological problems, usually at the molecular level.

Biomedical informatics - a discipline related to bioinformatics that has roots in medical informatics or healthcare informatics. It studies the use of information technology and advanced research computing in the practice of biomedical sciences and medicine.

Certificate - a document attesting to the fact that a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution not authorized to grant diplomas, or to a student not qualifying for a diploma.

Clinical informatics - focuses on computer applications that address the collection, processing and representation of medical data.

Computational genomics - the study of deciphering biology from genome sequences using computational analysis, including DNA and RNA.Health informatics or medical informatics - disciplines at the intersection of information science, medicine and healthcare. They deal with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine.

Nursing informatics - a specialized form of healthcare informatics, which supports nursing with information systems in delivery, documentation, administration and evaluation of patient care and the prevention of diseases.