LIMSWiki:Resources

Welcome to the LIMSwiki informatics resource portal

This collection of web links represents an attempt to collate as many useful online scientific and health informatics-related materials and research tools as possible. As entities often change the URLs of their material or delete it in total, it's quite likely you may discover a bad URL or two. We'll try to keep this updated as often as possible, but please do help if you are able.

An attempt was made to be as thorough as possible in most categories, though we realize some entities — especially non-English websites — may have escaped our search efforts. The books category is somewhat of a special case, as we tried to focus on relevant books published within the last 10 to 12 years, primarily those with positive feedback on Amazon and other online retailers. However, search tools for finding other informatics books have been included to allow you to research and decide for yourself if a particular book is worth looking into.

Books

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Resources for finding books related to laboratory and other types of informatics

CRC Press, informatics books

International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), all books

IOS Press, all books

Jones and Bartlett Learning, bioinformatics books

The National Academies Press, computers and information technology books

Springer, all books

Wiley, all books

Informatics books

• Carter, Jerome H., ed. (2008). Electronic Health Records (2nd ed.). American College of Physicians. pp. 530. ISBN 9781930513976. https://www.acponline.org/ebizatpro/ProductsandServices/BooksfromACPPress/ACPPressDetail/tabid/203/Default.aspx?ProductId=17173. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Bali, Rajeev K. (2005). Clinical Knowledge Management: Opportunities and Challenges (1st ed.). IGI Global. pp. 334. ISBN 9781591403005. http://www.igi-global.com/book/clinical-knowledge-management/155. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Cowan, Daniel, ed. (2002). Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory: A Practical Guide (1st ed.). Springer. pp. 324. ISBN 9780387244495. http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-0-387-95362-5. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Davis, Nadinia A.; LaCour, Melissa (2013). Health Information Technology (3rd ed.). Elsevier. pp. 604. ISBN 9781437727364. http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781437727364. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Ekins, Sean; Hupcey, Maggie A. Z.; Williams, Antony J.; Bingham, Alpheus, ed. (2011). Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research (1st ed.). Wiley. pp. 576. ISBN 9780470638033. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470638036.html. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Gammack, John; Hobbs, Val; Pigott, Diarmuid, ed. (2011). The Book of Informatics (1st revised ed.). Cengage Learning. pp. 542. ISBN 9780170216005. http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1003&product_isbn=9780170216005. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Hebda, Toni Lee; Czar, Patricia (2012). Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals (5th ed.). Pearson. pp. 624. ISBN 9780132574952. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Handbook-of-Informatics-for-Nurses-Healthcare-Professionals/9780132574952.page. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Hoyt, Robert E.; Bailey, Nora; Yoshihashi, Ann, ed. (2012). Health Informatics: Practical Guide For Healthcare And Information Technology Professionals (5th ed.). Lulu Press. pp. 490. ISBN 9781105437557. http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-e-hoyt-and-nora-bailey-and-ann-yoshihashi/health-informatics-practical-guide-for-healthcare-and-information-technology-professionals-fifth-edition/paperback/product-18864042.html. 

(Amazon.com link)

• International Medical Informatics Association, ed. (2012). IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. Schattauer Publishers. ISBN 9783794526512. http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/imia-yearbook/objectives-contents-formats/issue/special/manuscript/11851/show.html. 

• Kagadis, George C.; Langer, Steve G., ed. (2011). Informatics in Medical Imaging (1st ed.). CRC Press. pp. 367. ISBN 9781439831243. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439831243. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Liu, Q.; Bai, Q.; Giugni, S.; Williamson, D.; Taylor, J., ed. (2012). Data Provenance and Data Management in eScience (2013 ed.). Springer. pp. 184. ISBN 9783642299308. http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-642-29930-8. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Lorenzi, Nancy M.; Riley, Robert T. (2004). Managing Technological Change: Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics (2nd ed.). Springer. pp. 305. ISBN 9781441931337. http://www.springer.com/medicine/book/978-0-387-98548-0. 

(Amazon.com link) 

• Pantanowitz, Liron; Tuthill, J. Mark; Balis, Ulysses G.J. (2012). Pathology Informatics: Theory and Practice (1st ed.). American Society for Clinical Pathology. pp. 336. ISBN 9780891895831. http://www.ascp.org/Store/Books/5831.html. 

(Amazon.com link) 

• Shortliffe, Edward H.; Cimino, James J., ed. (2010). Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (3rd revised ed.). Springer. pp. 1038. ISBN 9780387362786. http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-0-387-28986-1. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Taylor, Paul, ed. (2006). From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics (1st ed.). BMJ Books. pp. 272. ISBN 9780727917751. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0727917757.html. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Thomas-Brogan, Teri, ed. (2008). Health Information Technology Basics: A Concise Guide to Principles and Practice (1st ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 180. ISBN 9780763746872. http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763746872/. 

(Amazon.com link)

• Wager, Karen A.; Lee, Frances W.; Glaser, John P., ed. (2009). Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass. pp. 544. ISBN 9780470387801. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470387807.html. 

(Amazon.com link)

Magazines, journals, and blogs

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Magazines

• ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals: a bi-weekly magazine that covers "the latest on compliance, marketing and professional issues" for laboratory professionals

• American Laboratory: provides "analytical chemists and life scientists with up-to-date information about equipment, instrumentation, and applications that they use in their labs every day."

• Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals: created "to inform policy-makers and practitioners in the higher education and research sectors of developments in the online environment."

• Bio-IT World: "provides topical news coverage and analysis of cutting-edge technologies to handle the data deluge in petascale computing and the tools to deliver individualized medicine."

• Bioscience Technology: "provides life science/biotechnology researchers with new product and new technology information."

• CAP TODAY: a healthcare publication with "feature articles, concise news items, editorial columns, and scientific abstracts"

• Chromatography Techniques: "presents bylined articles, new products, technologies and application notes covering gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, chemistries and columns, software, sample prep, spectroscopy and more."

• Clinical Lab Products: "focuses exclusively on products and technology for the clinical lab industry."

• Drug Discovery & Development: "delivers insight into the full landscape of technologies, tools, and business/regulatory strategies that help scientists and executives accelerate the pace and productivity of drug research and development."

• Drug Discovery World: "examines the advances in new science and technology with a view to the commercial implications of implementing those advances and whether they can truly bring benefits to the industry as a whole" and to "the discovery and development of new therapeutics."

• European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer: keeps "readers abreast of the latest offerings and developments in R&D and manufacturing products and equipment, ingredients and contract services."

• Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News: covers "the entire bioproduct life cycle from early-stage R&D, to applied research including omics, biomarkers, as well as diagnostics, to bioprocessing and commercialization."

• Health Data Management: focuses on the process of "using information technology to achieve business goals and improve the quality of care" offered to individuals.

• Healthcare Informatics: covers topics like EMR, EHR, wireless technologies, meaningful use policy, patient safety, point-of-care technology, health information exchange, and hospital administration.

• Lab Manager: "analyzes the strong link between business strategy, technological innovation and implementation."

• Laboratory Design: serves the "community involved in the design, construction, and operation of laboratory facilities, including building owners and operators, high-level lab users and managers, and the building team."

• Laboratory Informatics Guide: a yearly special supplement to Scientific Computing World subscribers that provides articles and information about laboratory informatics.

• Laboratory Equipment: provides "concise and insightful information on the latest scientific instruments, software, supplies, and equipment."

• Laboratory News: provides "readers with comprehensive and detailed coverage of the issues facing contemporary science."

• Life Science Leader: provides life science executives with the industry's best practices and "motivate[s] them to implement those best practices in their own businesses."

• Medical Laboratory Observer: provides "lab professionals with peer-reviewed editorials, answers to critical questions and important product information."

• Medical Technology Business Europe: covers "developments in medical technology, focusing on medical devices with electronics, and nanotechnology, diagnostics, biotechnology, and advanced prosthetics/ implants."

• Modern Healthcare: delivers "healthcare business and policy news, research and information."

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: covers "best practices, key trends, developments and successful applications" in the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing.

• Pharmaceutical Technology / Pharmaceutical Technology Europe: provides "peer-reviewed research and expert analyses for scientists, engineers, and managers" in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with the "Europe" version focusing on the European market.

• Pulse+IT: eHealth and health IT topics primarily targeted at the Australian and New Zealand health sectors.

• R&D Magazine: provides news and technical articles that focus on the research and development industry.

• Research Information: provides news and articles about "online content and information management."

• Scientific Computing: "covers the new products, services, and technologies that are available to science professionals."

• Scientific Computing World: "dedicated to the computing and information technology needs of professionals working in science, technology, engineering, and medicine."

• The Scientist: "dedicated to covering a wide range of topics central to the study of cell and molecular biology, genetics, and other life-science fields."

Journals

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Journals

Numerous journals concerning many types of scientific informatics pursuits — from nursing informatics to cancer informatics — are produced for the scientific community and beyond. Many are only accessible through subscription or purchase, while others are open-access journals, available to anyone with Internet access.

Click the link above for the compiled list of related journals and journal resources.

Blogs

Individual blogs

• Australian Health Information Technology: informs and provides a discussion platform for eHealth topics in Australia and beyond.

• The Digital Pathology Blog - Laboratory Informatics News: "educate[s] and inform[s] the pathology and laboratory community about digital pathology."

• eHealth: features eHealth and health IT topics from John Sharp, an IT manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio.

• The Electronic Lab Notebook Blog: features ELN topics from Rory Macneil, CEO of Research Space.

• Gobbledygook: features topics on how the Internet is changing scholarly communication, by medical doctor and cancer researcher Martin Fenner.

• Health IT Buzz: features topics on the United States' transition to electronic health records," from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

• HealthBlog: "thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD."

• The Healthcare IT Guy: focuses on "healthcare IT with an emphasis on e-health, EHR/EMR, meaningful use, data integration, medical device connectivity, health informatics, and legacy modernization," by software analyst Shahid Shah.

• HIStalk: offers news and opinion on healthcare IT.

• Hodge's Model: "provides a space for reflections on a health, social care, and informatics model with universal potential in terms of application and users," by mental health nurse and informatics specialist Peter Jones.

• Informatics Professor: "maintains the thoughts on various topics related to biomedical and health informatics by Dr. William Hersh, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University"

• The Integrated Lab: provides information and open discussion on any topic dealing with laboratory integration.

• IT Everything: covers healthcare IT, by reporter and editor Joseph Conn.

• Lab Soft News: covers topics of healthcare IT and pathology informatics, by Bruce Friedman, Emeritus Professor of Pathology in the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School

• The Management of Disinformation: covers topics of healthcare IT and telemedicine, by copywriter and telecare consultant Guy Dewsbury.

• Meaningful HIT News: covers meaningful topics regarding healthcare IT, by professional healthcare IT journalist Neil Versel.

• Nursing Informatics & Technology: covers the topics of "healthcare informatics, technological development and implementation."

• On Informatics: "dedicated to uncovering the meanings and applications of medical informatics."

• Out on a LIMS: covers the topics of LIMS, ELN, and other aspects of laboratory informatics, by Gloria Metrick of GeoMetrick Enterprises.

• RX Informatics: "seeks to better the healthcare, pharmacy, and information technology community by providing an online presence for collaboration."

• Social Informatics Blog: covers topics on the "intersections of technology, information, and media as well as countless other paths of research."

• The Telecare Blog: covers the topic of telecare, by copywriter and telecare consultant Guy Dewsbury.

• Telehealth & Telecare Aware: aims to help telecare and telehealth "suppliers and service providers around the world keep up to date with what each other are doing."

Corporate blogs

• ABB Blog: the official blog of power and industrial automation equipment and software developer ABB Ltd.

• Accelrys Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer Accelrys, Inc.

• Agfa HealthCare Blog: the official blog of healthcare IT developer Agfa HealthCare NV.

• Ambidata Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer Ambidata Digital Innovation Solutions & Consulting, Lda.

• LIMS System: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer Autoscribe Ltd.

• BioData Blog: the official blog for laboratory informatics software developer BioData Inc.'s Labguru product.

• Eusoft LIMS Blog: the official blog for laboratory informatics software developer Eusoft srl.

• Cerner Blog: the official blog of healthcare IT developer Cerner Corporation.

• Elekta BLog: the official blog of healthcare IT developer Elekta AB.

• ID Business Solutions Blog: the official blog of data management and analytic software developer ID Business Solutions Ltd.

• KineMatik Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer KineMatik Ltd.

• LabKey Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer LabKey Corporation.

• LABVANTAGE Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc.

• Orchard Software Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer Orchard Software Corporation.

• PerkinElmer Informatics Blog: the official informatics blog of PerkinElmer Inc.

• RJ Lee Solutions Blog: the official blog for RJ Lee Solutions' THEMIS LIMS.

• RURO Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics software developer RURO Inc.

• Thermo Scientific Chromatography Blog: the official chromatography blog for Thermo Scientific.

Open-source project blogs

• Open-LIMS News: the news blog for the open-source Open-LIMS.

• OpenChrom Blog: the blog for the open-source OpenChrom.

• OpenClinica Blog: the blog for the open-source OpenClinica.

• OpenELIS Global Blog: the global blog for the open-source OpenELIS.

• OpenMRS Blog: the news blog for the open-source OpenMRS.

Web portals

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This is a collection of web portals that relate to anything from dental informatics to healthcare IT. If you don't find the site you're looking for here, it may be in the Blogs or Knowledge base, research, and reference sections of the resources page.
 

• AmericanEHR Partners: "an online community of clinicians who use information technology to deliver care to Americans"

• analytica-world.com: an information portal for analytics and lab technology, complementing analytica, the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, and Biotechnology

• BioAfrica.net: a "bioinformatics portal for human life in Africa," produced by the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal

• Cambridge Healthtech Institute: a life science portal by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute

• Dental Informatics Online Community: a "virtual, global community for anyone interested in dental informatics," funded by the U.S. National Library of Medicine

• E-Health Insider: a web portal with "news, comment and analysis about healthcare IT in the UK"

• Ecoinformatics.org: a web portal acting as an "online resource for managing ecological data and information"

• FierceHealthIT: a web portal for "healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance, and other critical areas"

• Government Health IT: a web portal with "news and information on how government is driving the adoption of information technology in healthcare"

• Health Informatics Forum: an information portal acting as "a social network for health informatics professionals and students"

• Health Informatics Scotland: an NHS-based web portal for the Scottish health informatics community

• Health Technology Review: a healthcare portal with "information, articles, reviews, ratings and news on today's leading healthcare technologies, with a special focus on electronic medical records and medical billing software"

• Health-e-Directory: a portal providing "a comprehensive listing of products and service solutions for e-Health"

• Healthcare IT News: a news portal for healthcare IT executives that offers information on "new technologies, IT strategies and tactics, statutory and regulatory issues, as well as provider and vendor updates"

• HealthITPages: an online directory of healthcare IT pages

• HITSphere: a web portal for "blogs, news, tools, and other items of interest to the healthcare IT community"

• Journal Watch: a web portal "providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice"

• LabCompliance.com: a pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry portal of free and fee-based "information on how to improve quality and to comply with FDA and other regulations" including standards

• LIMSfinder.com: an online portal of information devoted to laboratory information management systems and other laboratory informatics products

• PflebIT: a nursing informatics portal and knowledgebase (in German)

• Pharma IQ: "an international online community focusing on providing pharmaceutical and biotechnology professionals with knowledge, information and biotechnology articles"

• Science Knowledge Domain Links: a large collection of science- and research-related web links, many of them dealing with informatics

• seperationsNOW.com: a Wiley-backed portal of information about sample preparation, electrophoresis, chromatography, genomics, and laboratory informatics

• spectroscopyNOW.com: a Wiley-backed portal of information about numerous spectroscopic techniques

• Technology Networks: a wide collection of web resources pertaining to numerous scientific communities and topics, including informatics

Organizations, not-for-profits, and special interest groups

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Organization, associations, special interest groups, institutes, and not-for-profits related to scientific informatics pursuits exist all over the world. Many have open membership while a few are very selective in their acceptance.

Click the link above for a compiled list of these entities from around the world.
 

Government and academic

Government entities

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Bulgaria

• National Center of Public Health and Analyses, Ministry of Health: "carries out activities for protecting public health, promoting health and preventing diseases, [and] providing information for healthcare management"

Canada

• Canada Health Infoway: "works as a strategic investor of funds provided by the Federal Government, in collaboration with the provinces and territories" towards the effort of "transforming health care through health information technology"

• Canadian Institute for Health Information: strives to "collect, analyze and publish data and information in a standardized way ... that allows every jurisdiction to understand, compare and use the data and information effectively to make the decisions that lead to healthier Canadians"

• National Research Council Canada: "provide[s] innovation support, strategic research, scientific and technical services"

Cuba

• Infomed, National Center for Medical Science Information, Public Health Ministry: a portal for physicians, students, others to access a wide variety of health resources inside and outside the country

European Union

• CORDIS - Community Research and Development Information Service: "devoted to European research and development (R&D) activities and technology transfer"

Germany

• German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information: "publishes classifications for coding diagnoses and operations and maintains medical term systems" as well as "operates information systems for drugs, medical devices and evaluates medical procedures"

Global

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility: "an international government-initiated and funded initiative focused on making biodiversity data available to all and anyone, for scientific research, conservation and sustainable development"

Hungary

• National Institute for Quality and Organizational Development in Healthcare and Medicines: "coordinates health sector IT, ensures the multi-purpose use of sectoral data assets, analyzes health systems from an international perspective, and maintains the National Health Policy Library"

India

• Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Department of Biotechnology: works to develop software and provide technological infrastructure for the country's biotechnology efforts

• ERNET India: "provides IT connectivity to a range of institutional centers" in India

• National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology: provides "quality assurance in computer education among the nation's non-formal institutes"

• Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, IIT Delhi: "committed towards providing bioinformatics and computational biology tools and software freely accessible to bioinformatics community"

Poland

• Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw: a group performing "theoretical and experimental research on nucleic acids and proteins" and developing and using "computer programs for modeling of protein three-dimensional structures"

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: "delivers insight into the full landscape of technologies, tools, and business/regulatory strategies that help scientists and executives accelerate the pace and productivity of drug research and development."

• Drug Discovery World: "examines the advances in new science and technology with a view to the commercial implications of implementing those advances and whether they can truly bring benefits to the industry as a whole" and to "the discovery and development of new therapeutics."

• European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer: keeps "readers abreast of the latest offerings and developments in Research and Quality]: works "to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans"

• AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT: an "initiative [that] is part of the Nation's strategy to put information technology to work in health care"

• Center for Information Technology: works "to provide, coordinate and manage information technology and to advance computational science" in the U.S.

• Cognitive Science Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications: "applies linguistic, statistical, and knowledge-based research and development in the investigation of techniques for improving access to biomedical information"

• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "conduct[s] genetics research and system development in genomic sequencing, computational genome analysis, and computational protein structure analysis"

• Consumer Health Informatics Research Resource: "provides a resource of outcome variables and suggested measures to guide a comprehensive consumer health informatics assessment;" part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine

• Data.gov: strives to "increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government"

• Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute: "supports research that examines the fundamental processes and effects of health communication and informatics on cancer-related outcomes across the cancer control continuum"

• HealthIT.gov: "support[s] the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care"

• High Performance Computing and Informatics Office, Division of Computational Bioscience, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health: "provides expertise and resources in high performance computing, computational science, biomedical informatics, and modern information technology to the NIH scientific community" (alternate URL)

• Laboratory Science, Policy and Practice Program Office; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "provide[s] leadership, advocacy and cross-cutting services to continuously strengthen the quality of laboratory science, policy and practice at CDC, in the U.S. and globally"

• Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications: "conducts biomedical informatics research in support of the U.S. National Library of Medicine"

• National Archives and Records Administration: nation's record keeper of important legal and historical documents and materials

• National Center for Biotechnology Information: "advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information"

• National Center for Biomedical Computing: "the core of the networked national effort to build the computational infrastructure for biomedical computing in the nation;" funded by the National Institutes of Health

• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: "serve[s] as an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services on health data, statistics and national health information policy"

• National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology: "improving the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of health services research"

• National Library of Medicine: makes available various print and electronic documents; "supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology"

• Public Health Informatics Program, California Department of Public Health: "responsible for the enterprise collaboration of public health informatics across the California Department of Public Health"

• Science.gov: "searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results"

• Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Matériel Command: "performs medical reconnaissance and special operations to address critical gaps that are underrepresented in [Department of Defense] medical research programs"

Educational programs, training, and certifications

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Education

Bio, health, laboratory, medical, and nursing informatics education programs are arguably abundant in higher learning institutes and other entities. This compilation attempts to cover those academic programs, department, and facilities.

Click the link above for the full list of resources.
 

Conferences and trade shows

Conferences

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Scientific informatics is unsurprisingly an advancing field with a lot to talk about and share with others. Societies, associations, or professional groups will often turn to the conference to better disseminate and share information and ideas with other like-minded individuals and entities.

Click the link above for the full list of scientific informatics conferences.

Trade shows

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Like conferences, trade shows are another way for individuals in broad or very focused scientific pursuits to learn about the technology affecting their field. Information, ideas, and innovative product demonstrations can be shared with attendees looking to learn more about or gain a competitive advantage in their trade.

Click the link above for the full list of scientific informatics trade shows.
 

Health care and clinical laboratory conferences and trade shows

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Health care and clinical laboratory conferences and trade shows

This is a special addendum of conferences and trade shows that have more to do with clinical laboratory and health care practices than the informatics tools used in those settings.

Click the link above for the full list.
 

Discussion groups and social networks

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• BCS Health Informatics Forum: a non-official British Computer Society (BCS) LinkedIn group discussing the field of healthcare informatics

• Biotechspin: "the largest network for biotech, medtech, pharma, agrotech, healthcare, cosmetics, chemistry and cleantech professionals with multiple very helpful free tools and databases"

• Dental Informatics Online Community: a "virtual, global community for anyone interested in dental informatics"

• Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society Forum: a forum for discussing technology in healthcare

• GMANE: a public mail / bulletin board system for numerous fields of science and tech; related tools include: bioinformatics GMANEs and the BiO Bulletin Board

• Health Informatics Forum: "a social network for health informatics professionals and students"

• IAMI_Gen at Google Groups: the Indian Association for Medical Informatics on Google Groups

• JISCMail: "a large collection of groups which enable academics, support staff and researchers to collaborate"

• Laboratory Robotics Interest Group: this special interest group has their own set of discussion boards

• LiMS Forum - Laboratory Informatics Institute user's group: a LinkedIn user group for laboratory informatics topics

• LIMS/Laboratory Informatics user's group: a LinkedIn user group for laboratory informatics and LIMS topics

• LIMSforum and LIMS/LI annual top 50: a collection of the most active and commented posts from LiMS Forum and LIMS/Laboratory Informatics

• Nursing Informatics Online: a forum for professionals to discuss the topic of nursing informatics

Market studies and reports

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Rather than linking directly to specific studies and reports, this list focuses on entities that provide (occasionally or frequently) studies and reports related to healthcare, healthcare IT, and scientific applications of informatics as well as broader fields of research.

• ARC Advisory Group: a list of "studies [that] cover the full breadth of enterprise software, manufacturing applications, automation products, and related services"

• Bharat Book Bureau: market reports and research into almost any imaginable topic

• Chilmark Research: a research group focusing solely on health IT

• Kalorama Information: a "publisher of market research in medical markets, including the biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries"

• KLAS Enterprises: "helps healthcare providers make informed technology decisions by reporting accurate, honest, and impartial vendor performance data"

• Pharma-IQ - Surveys: surveys conducted concerning pharmaceutical manufacturing

• President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: a U.S. "advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers who directly advise the President and the Executive Office of the President;" the group occasionally releases science and technology reports and documents to the public

• Research and Markets: declares itself the "world's largest market research resource"

• research2guidance: "provide[s] market intelligence on the mobile applications market"

• Transparency Market Research: "a market intelligence company providing global business research reports" into pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals and materials, technology, and more

Knowledge base, research, and reference

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Research and reference

There are a variety of Internet-based tools available for people researching about or in the field of scientific informatics.

Click the link above for the full list of resources.
 

Specifications and standards

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Resources for researching specifications and standards

American National Standards Institute: "oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector"

ASTM International: handles the "development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards"

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine: "the international standard for medical images and related information"

FindACode: "an online database of medical billing codes and information"

Health Information Technology and Health Data Standards at NLM: "the central coordinating body for clinical terminology standards within the Department of Health and Human Services"

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs: develops "ANSI-accredited standards, and guidance for promoting information exchanges related to medications, supplies, and services within the healthcare system"

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Standards Coordination Office: aims "to equip U.S. industry with the standards-related tools and information necessary to effectively compete in the global marketplace"

Specific specifications and standards

• 21 CFR Part 11: provides compliance information regarding electronic records and electronic signatures

• 40 CFR Part 3: provides for electronic reporting (in lieu of a paper document) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• ABC Codes: five-digit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant (HIPAA) alpha codes (e.g., AAAAA) used by licensed and non-licensed healthcare practitioners on standard healthcare claim forms (additional ABC Codes resource)

• ASC X12: develops and maintains electronic data interchange (EDI) and context inspired component architecture (CICA) standards as well as XML schema

• ASTM Standards Under the Jurisdiction of E13 - Molecular Spectroscopy and Separation Science: ASTM Committee E13 on Molecular Spectroscopy and Separation Science; most if not all standards are relevant to laboratory informatics professionals, and all can be found with this link; especially of interest:

Committee E13.15 on Analytical Data

• E386-90(2011) Standard Practice for Data Presentation Relating to High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy

• E1578-06 Standard Guide for Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

• E1947-98(2009) Standard Specification for Analytical Data Interchange Protocol for Chromatographic Data

• E1948-98(2009) Standard Guide for Analytical Data Interchange Protocol for Chromatographic Data

• E1989-98(2004) Standard Specification for Laboratory Equipment Control Interface (LECIS) (Withdrawn 2009)

• E2066-00(2007) Standard Guide for Validation of Laboratory Information Management Systems

• E2077-00(2010) Standard Specification for Analytical Data Interchange Protocol for Mass Spectrometric Data

• E2078-00(2010) Standard Guide for Analytical Data Interchange Protocol for Mass Spectrometric Data

• ASTM Standards Under the Jurisdiction of E31 - Healthcare Informatics: ASTM Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics (alternate URL)

• Biomedical Informatics Core Competencies, AMIA: the American Medical Informatics Association's attempt "to develop a formal definition of biomedical informatics and to specify the core competencies that should drive curriculum and course design for graduate training in the field"

• DICOM Standard: official listing of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine standards

• GAMP Resources: a Good Automated Manufacturing Practice resource list from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering

• HIPAA Law and Related Information: HIPAA resources from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• HL7 International Standards: "a framework (and related standards) for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information"

• ICD-9 and ICD-10: the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code set "used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates;" tools for looking up ICD-9 and -10 codes: IDC9Data.com and CMS code lookup

• ICNP: the International Classification for Nursing Practice "establishes an international standard to facilitate description and comparison of nursing practice"

• ISO Standards Catalogue: international standards for products and services

• LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes: "a universal code system for identifying laboratory and clinical observations"

• NCPDP Telecommunication Standard Version 5.1: "provide[s] a standard format for the electronic submission of third-party drug claims"

• The Omaha System: a standardized health care terminology consisting of an assessment component, an intervention component, and an outcomes component

• openEHR Specification Project: an electronic health record (EHR) specification project

• Public Health Informatics Competencies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: a comprehensive list of competencies that define the discipline of public health informatics and its skillsets

• SNOMED CT: a set of "comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology"

• UMLS: Unified Medical Language System: "integrates and distributes key terminology, classification and coding standards, and associated resources to promote creation of more effective and interoperable biomedical information systems and services"

• XPDL Support and Resources: a process definition exchange framework

Jobs and career search

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While you can search any online job board, these sites specifically seem to contain a significant number of science and medical informatics jobs.

• Biohealthmatics.com: a "career networking portal for biotechnology and healthcare IT" in the U.S. and U.K markets

• Bioinformatics.ca - Job Postings: the informatics and bioinformatics job focus is mostly in Canada, though jobs in the U.S., U.K., and other parts of the world occasionally show up; job posting limited to Bioinformatics.ca members

• CareerBuilder.com - Laboratory informatics: a "laboratory informatics" job search at CareerBuilder.com; modify your search for other careers

• eHealthCareers.ca: the eHealthCareers job board

• Health Informatics Jobs: health informatics job postings at the Health Informatics Forum; may include other informatics jobs

• Indeed.com - Laboratory Informatics: a "laboratory informatics" job search at Indeed.com; modify your search for other careers

• LabCareers.com: all job postings at LabCareers.com; seems to be a good source for LIMS- and LIS-related work

• Laboratory Robotics Interest Group job board: this special interest group has a section for users to make job postings

• LIMS/Laboratory Informatics Group on LinkedIn: this links to the "Jobs" section of this LinkedIn group; you may need to request access to the group

• Nursing Informatics Online - Jobs: latest job posting from the Nursing Informatics Online forum

• Simply Hired - Laboratory Informatics: a "laboratory informatics" job search at SimplyHired.com; modify your search for other careers

Consultants

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Consultants

Scientific and laboratory informatics are complex, constantly advancing fields. Given the pace of change and sheer amount of related information, sometimes a quality consultancy is required to get the most out of your scientific endeavors.

Click the link above for the full list of resources.
 

Miscellaneous

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Projects

• The Aspen Project: dedicated to helping "students and lab personnel [to become] fully capable of understanding and working with modern laboratory technologies"

• BELIEF: a set of "different projects and initiatives involving researchers from across the world" working with e-Infrastructures in Europe

• epSOS – the European eHealth Project: "aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe"

• HIBBs: "seeks to build workforce capacity in resource constrained environments to plan, develop, manage, and use health information and communications technology (HICT) applications, with the goal of improving the delivery of health care"

• OpenNotes: "an initiative that invites patients to review their visit notes written by their doctors, nurses, or other clinicians"

• p-medicine Project: a European initiative to create "an innovative and integrated technological solution to enable personalised medicine"

• State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program: a U.S. initiative "designed to promote health information exchange (HIE) across the health care system"

Datasets

• Bioinformatics Links Directory - Databases: "features curated links to molecular resources, tools and databases;" link filters to show databases only

• Data.gov: a U.S. initiative "to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government"

• Directory of Open Access Repositories: "an authoritative directory of academic open access [data] repositories"

• Health Services and Sciences Research Resources, U.S. National Library of Medicine: "information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in health services research, behavioral and social sciences, and public health;" choose "Search Datasets only" before you begin your search

• Internet-based Hungarian Health Datawarehouse: contains "various data on Hungarian health care"

• Mouse Genome Informatics: a massive collection of resources (books, datasets, analysis tools, etc.) related to the study of the mouse genome

• NHS Evidence - Journals and Databases: "enables access to authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice through a web-based portal"

• NHS iView: "a free resource that provides flexible access to a wide range of health and social care data"

• Registry of Open Access Repositories: "promote[s] the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world"

• WorldWideScience.org: "a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals"

Research centers and organizations

• Canadian government scientific research organization list on Wikipedia

• Canadian university scientific research organization list on Wikipedia

• Genetics research organization list on Wikipedia

• Pakistani research institute list on Wikipedia

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