Biomedical informatics and HealthGRIDs: A European perspective - Past and current efforts and projects in the synergy of bionformatics and medical informatics

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 34-41

  Maojo, V ^a,b   Tsiknakis, M ^c,d,e,f  

^a Artificial Intelligence Lab   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c eHealth Laboratory

^d HYGEIAnet   (Greece)

^e ERCIM Biomedical Informatics Working Group

^f IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACOGENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET;

EID: 34249795480     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2007.364927     Document Type: Review

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