Harvard Catalyst Profiles

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Medical Informatics

"Medical Informatics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medical Informatics" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Medical Informatics" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 498 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 36 publications in 2013 and 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.