VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Am J Med. 2010 Dec;123(12 Suppl 1):e32-7. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.10.006.
As is the case for environmental, ecological, astronomical, and other sciences, medical practice and research finds itself in a tsunami of data. This data deluge, due primarily to the introduction of digitalization in routine medical care and medical research, affords the opportunity for improved patient care and scientific discovery. Medical informatics is the subdiscipline of medicine created to make greater use of information in order to improve healthcare. The 4 areas of medical informatics research (information access, structure, analysis, and interaction) are used as a framework to discuss the overlap in information needs of comparative effectiveness research and potential contributions of medical informatics. Examples of progress from the medical informatics literature and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System are provided.
与环境科学、生态学、天文学和其他科学一样，医学实践和研究也面临着数据海啸。这种数据泛滥主要是由于数字化在常规医疗和医学研究中的引入，为改善患者护理和科学发现提供了机会。医学信息学是医学的一个分支学科，旨在更好地利用信息来改善医疗保健。医学信息学研究的 4 个领域（信息获取、结构、分析和交互）被用作框架，讨论比较效果研究的信息需求重叠和医学信息学的潜在贡献。提供了来自医学信息学文献和退伍军人事务医疗系统的进展示例。
