TY - GEN
T1 - Reflections on biomedical informatics
T2 - 20th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, MIE 2006
AU - Maojo, Victor
AU - Kulikowski, Casimir A.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Expanding on our previous analysis of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), the present perspective ranges from cybernetics to nanomedicine, based on its scientific, historical, philosophical, theoretical, experimental, and technological aspects as they affect systems developments, simulation and modelling, education, and the impact on healthcare. We then suggest that BMI is still searching for strong basic scientific principles around which it can crystallize. As -omic biological knowledge increasingly impacts the future of medicine, ubiquitous computing and informatics become even more essential, not only for the technological infrastructure, but as a part of the scientific enterprise itself. The Virtual Physiological Human and investigations into nanomedicine will surely produce yet more unpredictable opportunities, leading to significant changes in biomedical research and practice. As a discipline involved in making such advances possible, BMI is likely to need to re-define itself and extend its research horizons to meet the new challenges.
AB - Expanding on our previous analysis of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), the present perspective ranges from cybernetics to nanomedicine, based on its scientific, historical, philosophical, theoretical, experimental, and technological aspects as they affect systems developments, simulation and modelling, education, and the impact on healthcare. We then suggest that BMI is still searching for strong basic scientific principles around which it can crystallize. As -omic biological knowledge increasingly impacts the future of medicine, ubiquitous computing and informatics become even more essential, not only for the technological infrastructure, but as a part of the scientific enterprise itself. The Virtual Physiological Human and investigations into nanomedicine will surely produce yet more unpredictable opportunities, leading to significant changes in biomedical research and practice. As a discipline involved in making such advances possible, BMI is likely to need to re-define itself and extend its research horizons to meet the new challenges.
KW - Bioinformatics
KW - Biomedical Informatics
KW - Medical Informatics
KW - Nanomedicine
KW - Ontologies
KW - Virtual Physiological Human
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17108499
SN - 1586036475
SN - 9781586036478
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 19
EP - 24
BT - Ubiquity
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 27 August 2006 through 30 August 2006
ER -