What We Do
Our vision is to provide mentorship and tools to faculty, staff, and trainees who are engaged in and to promote research related to Informatics, Innovation, and Integration.
BME 580.480/680 Precision Care Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine has partnered with the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science to develop a course offered through the Whiting School of Engineering. The course facilitates a collaboration between investigators at the School of Medicine, with students and mentors from the School of Engineering to develop a work plan and apply methods of computational medicine to solve important health care problems.
Visit: https://www.bme.jhu.edu
Informatics Resources
AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association
AMIA is a community committed to the vision of a world where informatics transforms people’s care. Over the last 35 years, the use of informatics has grown exponentially to improve health and to make better healthcare decisions. Today, informatics is the key to accelerating the current goals of healthcare reform.
Journal
JAMIA is AMIA’s premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics. Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science, imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy. JAMIA’s articles describe innovative informatics research and systems that help to advance biomedical science and to promote health. Case reports, perspectives and reviews also help readers stay connected with the most important informatics developments in implementation, policy and education.
The Society for Medical Decision Making
“Our vision is that systematic proactive approaches should be used for decision making in health care. We are promoting an integrated approach to health care decision making based on multiple perspectives and expertise from multiple disciplines. Optimal communication among those involved in healthcare decisions will facilitate informed and shared decision-making by policy-makers, physicians, patients, and the public.”
“If you are involved in health care decision making, working in a hospital, university, foundation, industry or government, at any stage of your career, SMDM can provide you with a scholarly home and opportunities for collaboration, professional growth, networking and mentorship.”
Journal
Medical Decision Making Journal: MDM offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development
ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research
“SPOR is dedicated to improving healthcare decision making. We believe that every healthcare decision should be informed by the best scientific research. Toward that goal, the Society’s mission is to promote health economics and outcomes research excellence to improve decision making for health globally”
Journal
Value in Health, an international, indexed journal that publishes original research and health policy articles that advance the field of health economics and outcomes research to help healthcare leaders make evidence-based decisions. https://www.ispor.org/publications/journals/value-in-health
INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
“INFORMS is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to and promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making, and outcomes”
Journal
Decision Analysis is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to advancing the theory, application, and teaching of all aspects of decision analysis.
HIMMS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)
HIMSS is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information and technology. HIMSS leads efforts to optimize health engagements and care outcomes using information and technology. HIMSS, headquartered in Chicago, serves the global health IT community with additional offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Society for Technology in Anesthesia
Below you will find a list of organizations and websites that offer information or resources which may be helpful for your next project. Take a look at the list below to see if any are relevant to your project.
InHealth
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/inhealth/index.html
InHealth – how to practice precision medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Precision medicine uses the latest technology to measure disease characteristics so we can identify patterns in groups of patients.
Precision Medicine Analytics Platform
Cookbook
I3 Research Leadership
Adam Sapirstein, MD
Director