About Biomedical Informatics

Mission

The Biomedical Informatics program offers a high-quality educational experience that equips students and graduates with advanced skills in artificial intelligence, information technology and computer science. The program enables them to analyze diverse biomedical and healthcare data, develop tools that support accurate and efficient disease diagnosis, propose more effective treatments, and manage clinical data with high efficiency. These contributions aim to improve quality of life and positively impact the economic aspects of the healthcare sector.

Description

Biomedical Informatics (BMD) is an interdisciplinary emerging field that deals with the applications of Computer Science, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering to improve biomedicine and human health. The BMD program builds and enhances the students’ ability to effectively use, collect, store and retrieve biomedical data, information and knowledge, enabling them to solve clinical problems and make clear-cut decisions with the goal of improving healthcare.

The set of skills that Biomedical students will acquire are the following:

Learning programming techniques.
Building a mathematical foundation.
Having a basic knowledge of Bioinformatics.
Learning medical image processing.
Understanding, analyzing, and linking all types of biomedical data.
Improving disease diagnosis and treatment.
Solving clinical problems.
Analyzing and interpreting biomedical data.
Discovering new biological insights.
Building pipelines for biomedical data integration, analysis, and visualization.
Developing software that supports the clinical application.
Designing a health management information system for hospitals.

Careers you can pursue:

Bioinformatics Data Scientist
Bioinformatics Analyst
Clinical System Analyst
Health Informatics Consultant
Clinical Application Developer
Medical Informatics Analyst