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BMHI and CTSI/BMI

BMHI - What is it and how does it align with CTSI-BMI, IHI, AHC IE?

Biomedical Health Informatics (BMHI) is an overarching infrastructure supporting the breadth of biomedical informatics (BMI) initiatives and that will coordinate availability of these services, synchronize knowledge across groups, and provide education to grow BMI capabilities (2010, CTSA).

BMHI Organizational Chart

Figure 1: CTSA October 2010 submission

The Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) presents a vision to improve the health of Minnesotans. For a PowerPoint overview, click here. The section in the grant, called Biomedical Informatics (BMI), fully describes how to support a coordinated, collaborative environment in basic and clinical translational research that fosters optimal discovery, sharing, and use of new knowledge. It may be useful to think of CTSI-BMI as the tools and applications needed to support researchers for the continuum of translational research. At the University of Minnesota, efforts to achieve the vision of the CTSA-BMI are encompassed in the responsibilities of the Office Biomedical Health Informatics (BMHI). This Office is responsible to support the breadth of biomedical informatics initiatives across the University of Minnesota, both within and beyond the colleges of the Academic Health Center (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, School of Public Health, and Veterinary Medicine). In addition, BMHI has a close and collaborative relationship with The University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Informatics (UMII). BMHI directs the activities of three major entities:

  1. Institute for Health Informatics (IHI), the academic home of the University's biomedical health informatics offering a comprehensive research and graduate program, offering two master's degrees (Master of Health Informatics and Master of Science) and one PhD degree program (Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics)
  2. CTSI-BMI - Academic Health Center's Information Exchange (AHC IE) is a broad interdisciplinary effort that provides the structure and governance needed to support the CTSA-BMI vision.
    • Oversight Team
    • Work Groups
      • Research Studies
      • Informatics
      • Data Governance and Security
      • Architecture and Solutions
  3. Center for eHealth and Policy, a thoughtful collaboration between the University’s BMHI and the Minnesota Department of Health.

What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?

An emerging, interdisciplinary, integrative and diverse field that:

  • Combines health sciences (e.g., medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health) with computer science, management, cognitive and decision sciences, social science, biostatistics, engineering and information technology
  • Solves problems in health care delivery, pharmaceutical, biomedical and health sciences research, health education and clinical/medical decision making
  • Has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that sets it apart from other professions and disciplines

Aims to:

  • Advance life sciences research, health professions education, public health, and patient care
  • optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine (Wikipedia)

- from AMIA


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