UW view of the broad, cross-cutting themes for biomedical & health informatics

Proposed cross cutting themes to highlight in all core BHI courses

• At UW we believe there are cross cutting information challenges and opportunities faced by people across the continuum of biomedical and health areas:

  • Understanding information problems and needs of people in biomedicine and health
  • Representing, using/applying, computing and reasoning with incomplete, uncertain, and dynamic biomedical and health knowledge and data
  • Integrating, managing, sharing, and visualizing ever growing amounts of biomedical and health data and systems
  • Creating information systems that are useful for and usable by people, organizations and society, and that account for their behavior and values
  • Evaluating and validating methods, models, tools, and systems

• UW BHI graduates will be trained to play enabling and leading roles on a team of collaborators with diverse expertise and perspectives engaged in addressing biomedical and health information opportunities and challenges
  • At UW we create, translate, and transform methods and models to: a) advance the field of BHI, b) contribute to the disciplines from which BHI draws, and c) contribute to advancing our knowledge and practice in the biomedical and health domains
  • UW BHI faculty and students draw upon collaborations with researchers in computing sciences and information sciences
  • At UW BHI research, applications and collaborations span a continuum of overlapping areas including: supporting biologic, clinical, and population researchers and supporting those engaged in improving biomedical research,clinical care, consumer health, and public health
  • Graduates of the UW BHI program should be able to communicate, create, translate, transform, and advance methods and models from diverse disciplines into generalizable methods, tools, and solutions for people involved with biomedicine and health