Teaching Scholars Lecture Series

Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D.

What is Biomedical Informatics? A People-Focused Exploration

Informatics seems to mean something different to every person who uses the term. One view of informatics is based on the simple "fundamental theorem" that persons can perform better--as clinicians, researchers, or students--when supported by information technology than they would if unassisted.  Biomedical informatics, then, should build and deploy advanced technology that promises to make people "better" and examine whether the people actually are "better" when this technology is deployed. In this view of informatics, people are cast in the starring role.

February 3, 2004
College of Public Health G-225
4:00-5:00 pm

All UAMS faculty invited
One hour CME Credit

Charles P. Friedman is Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently serving as Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine. Originally trained in physics, Dr. Friedman developed an interest in education early in his career and applied it to physics education at M.I.T and later to medical education at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Friedman has always had interests in computing and information technology that developed over time into a focus on biomedical informatics. In 1996, he left North Carolina for Pittsburgh to found an academic informatics center that spans the health sciences and addresses information technology in application to health care, biomedical research, health professions education, and the administration of academic health centers. 

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