Section of Medical Informatics
Marc Triola, MD, Chief of Section of Medical InformaticsThe Section of Medical Informatics is the Division’s newest section, established in early 2004. Medical informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care.
While the field of medical informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialties and disciplines, medical informatics has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that have set it apart from other disciplines and specialties.
For one, a common thread through medical informatics has been the emphasis on technology as an integral tool to help organize, analyze, manage, and use information. In addition, as professionals involved at the intersection of information and technology and health care, those in medical informatics have historically tended to be engaged in the research, development, and evaluation side of things, and in studying and teaching the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of data applications in health care.
Today medical informatics includes the administration, collection, and use of information in health care.
[More information on NYU School of Medicine Informatics Resources]