Principles of Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical informatics (BMI) is an extraordinarily broad discipline. In scale, it spans across genes, cells, tissues, organ systems, individual patients, populations, and the world’s medical ecology. It ranges in methodology fromhardcoremathematicalmodeling to descriptive observations that use “soft”methods such as those of sociology. It studies, models and designs data, processes, policies, organizations, and systems.