Biomedical Informatics Research Center

Other Biomedical Informatics Sites

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA’s 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health.

BioForward
BioForward is the member-driven state association that is the voice of Wisconsin’s biotechnology industry. They advocate actively on members’ behalf to create investment and partnership opportunities, attract and retain the very best people, and support public policy that fosters continued growth. They also provide member-support services that include networking opportunities through a variety of conferences and events, online resources. and group purchasing programs. Members include biotechnology companies, universities, non-profits, service providers, and state, regional, and local government representatives.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare practices and public policy through its content expertise, professional development, and research initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to improving the quality, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness of patient care.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
The bimonthly Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, JAMIA, presents peer-reviewed articles that describe key perspectives, novel applications, and leading-edge original investigations in the field. Readers include healthcare professionals, biomedical informaticians, computer and information scientists, administrators, and their students. Contributors develop healthcare informatics models, applications, and standards that JAMIA readers apply to clinical practice, teaching, research, and healthcare administration.

World Usability Day
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 200 events are organized in over 43 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.

UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR)
The goal of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is to create an environment that transforms research into a continuum from investigation through discovery and to translation into real-life community practice, thereby linking even the most basic research to practical improvements in human health.