Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Progress in data collection technologies across healthcare and biological research, powered by contemporary computing and information systems, has significantly revitalized the interconnected disciplines of Medical Informatics and Data-Driven Biomedicine.
The Centre For Medical Informatics within Edinburgh's Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics launched on 1 April 2015 (coinciding with Harvard Medical School's creation of a Biomedical Informatics department that same year).
Integrating informatics with biomedical science is crucial for progressing toward 4P medicine (tailored, anticipatory, proactive, and patient-involved healthcare).