MISSION

BMI will engage clinicians, scientists, and allied health colleagues in a systematic program of research and development in the domains of computer science, language processing, concept representation, information retrieval, and computational biology. Enable focused enhancements for Mayo practice, research and education through research, development and evaluation of:

• Infrastructures and methods for the management and retrieval of patient and genomic data.
• Classification and terminology systems in knowledge contexts.
• Bioinformatics methods, deployment, and investigator support.
• Health and genomics standards development and open source collaboration.

HISTORY

The Division of Biomedical Informatics (formerly the Division of Medical Informatics Research, originally the Section of Medical Information Resources) within the Department of Health Sciences Research was created in 1987 to formalize the organization of medical record indexing operations (previously the Medical Records Unit) and to initiate a new program of research on patient data representation in a knowledge-based context.

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