Biomedical informatics and data science: evolving fields with significant overlap

Big data and data science investigations hold great promise for making efficient use of data generated in the course of daily life: from social media transactions, news, and a variety of apps used by a large portion of the world ’s population, including data generated for health care and life sciences research. Data science brings new insights when large-scale datasets are brought together to characterize and address complex problems. The past decade has seen a plethora of federal and private investments in biomedical dat a science collection, organization, and analysis, including the National Institutes of Health’s Big Data to Knowledge program, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s PCORnet, and investments from various industries. The work is maturing and interesting, and exciting results are emerg ing.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research