Johnson Layne M, Ames Trevor R, Jacko Julie A, Watson Linda A
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA.
J Vet Med Educ. 2011 Spring;38(1):5-9. doi: 10.3138/jvme.38.1.5.
Information and data management are essential to support the collaborative and interdisciplinary pursuits of an academic veterinary medicine enterprise, ranging from research conducted by individual investigators, education processes, clinical care, and outreach to administration and management. Informatics is an academic discipline that focuses on the creation, management, storage, retrieval, and use of information and data and how technology can be applied to improve access to and use of these resources. In this article, we discuss the challenges in integrating informatics across a large academic enterprise from a veterinary medicine point of view. As a case study, we describe an example program of informatics at the University of Minnesota designed to support interdisciplinary collaboration.
信息与数据管理对于支持学术兽医学企业的协作与跨学科工作至关重要，其范围涵盖个体研究人员开展的研究、教育过程、临床护理、外展服务以及行政管理。信息学是一门学科，专注于信息与数据的创建、管理、存储、检索及使用，以及如何应用技术来改善对这些资源的获取与利用。在本文中，我们从兽医学的角度探讨了在大型学术机构中整合信息学所面临的挑战。作为一个案例研究，我们描述了明尼苏达大学一个旨在支持跨学科合作的信息学示例项目。
