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

Elsevier, informatics books

IOS Press, informatics books

Jones and Bartlett Learning, bioinformatics books

Routledge and CRC Press, informatics books

Springer, informatics books

The National Academies Press, computers and information technology books

Wiley, informatics books

Informatics books

2000–2015

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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/. 

• 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. 

2016–now

• Hesse, Bradford W.; Ahern, David; Beckjord, Ellen (2016). Oncology Informatics (1st ed.). Academic Press. pp. 448. ISBN 9780128021156. https://www.elsevier.com/books/oncology-informatics/hesse/978-0-12-802115-6. 

• Hussey, Pamela; Jennedy, Margaret A., ed. (2021). Introduction to Nursing Informatics (5th ed.). Springer. pp. 427. ISBN 9783030587390. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030587390. 

• Isayev, Olexandr; Tropsha, Alexander; Curtarolo, Stefano, ed. (2019). Materials Informatics: Methods, Tools, and Applications. Wiley. pp. 304. ISBN 9783527341214. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Materials+Informatics%3A+Methods%2C+Tools%2C+and+Applications-p-9783527341214. 

• Kamilaris, Andreas; Wohlgemuth, Volker; Karatzas, Kostas D. et al., ed. (2021). Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics (1st ed.). Springer. pp. 270. ISBN 9783030619688. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030619688. 

• Kumar, Pardeep; Kumar, Yugal; Tawhid, Mohamed A., ed. (2021). Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT for Medical Informatics (1st ed.). Academic Press. pp. 458. ISBN 9780128217771. https://www.elsevier.com/books/machine-learning-big-data-and-iot-for-medical-informatics/xhafa/978-0-12-821777-1. 

• Lambert, Chrisophe; Baker, Darrol; Patrinos, George, ed. (2018). Human Genome Informatics (1st ed.). Academic Press. pp. 314. ISBN 9780128094143. https://www.elsevier.com/books/human-genome-informatics/lambert/978-0-12-809414-3. 

• Mccaffrey, Peter (2020). An Introduction to Healthcare Informatics (1st ed.). Academic Press. pp. 339. ISBN 9780128149157. https://www.elsevier.com/books/an-introduction-to-healthcare-informatics/mccaffrey/978-0-12-814915-7. 

• Nelson, Ramona; Staggers, Nancy (2016). Health Informatics (2nd ed.). Mosby. pp. 678. ISBN 9780323402316. https://www.elsevier.com/books/health-informatics/page/978-0-323-40231-6. 

• Peck, Alexander (2018). Clark's Essential PACS, RIS and Imaging Informatics (1st ed.). CRC Press. pp. 248. ISBN 9781498763233. https://www.routledge.com/Clarks-Essential-PACS-RIS-and-Imaging-Informatics/Peck/p/book/9781498763233. 

• Sittig, Dean (2017). Clinical Informatics Literacy (1st ed.). Academic Press. pp. 252. ISBN 9780128032077. https://www.elsevier.com/books/clinical-informatics-literacy/sittig/978-0-12-803206-0. 

Magazines, journals, and blogs

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Magazines

• 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."

• Becker's Hospital Review - Health IT: covers the healthcare IT aspects of hospitals

• 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."

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

• Clinical Lab Manager: "provides readers with information and tips on finance and business strategy for the clinical lab."

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

• Clinical Laboratory International: "crammed with information of direct relevance to everyone in the in vitro diagnostics field and all related disciplines."

• Drug Discovery & Development: "covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation"

• Drug Discovery World: "cover[s] the latest news and events in the global pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and biotech sectors, as well as the technology and processes to help create vaccines, therapeutics and drugs."

• 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 & 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: "guides the healthcare community with insight that anticipates how advanced computing—analytics, artificial intelligence, digital health, virtual care platforms, interoperable systems and more—can support care improvement and clinical efficiency."

• Healthcare Innovation: "draw upon decades of experience in covering the industry, sharing insights and analysis with readers through feature articles, web interviews, blogs, and news coverage."

• HIT Consultant: "provides editorial insights on health IT, EHRs, population health management, digital health, telehealth, accountable care, patient engagement and startups."

• Lab Manager: "the only publication specifically focused on all aspects of running a lab, including ensuring your lab is meeting health and safety standards, budgeting, hiring and retaining staff, managing people, designing and furnishing your lab, and choosing the right technologies for your lab."

• 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 Equipment: "bringing laboratory professionals the products, news and research innovations that help them excel at their jobs."

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

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

• Laboratory Talk: "provide the most comprehensive resource for everything from the latest products and research solutions, to white papers, application notes and case studies."

• 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."

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

• Pharma Manufacturing: "devoted to the drug product’s journey from end stage development, through scaleup, to commercial manufacturing, providing strategies and best practices for facilities whose goals include reducing risks, improving product quality and increasing efficiencies."

• Pharmaceutical Technology / Pharmaceutical Technology Europe: provides "peer-reviewed content and features on next-generation process development and manufacturing, formulation, drug delivery, ingredients, regulation, analytics, packaging, supply-chain, and outsourcing."

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

• R&D World: "deliver interesting and informative content to engineers, scientists, laboratory professionals, R&D managers, and others involved in the world of research."

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

• Scientific Computing World: "the only global publication dedicated to the computing and information technology needs of scientists and engineers."

• 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."

• Tomorrow's Laboratories: "your digital magazine for the laboratory science sector."

• Wiley Analytical Science: a Wiley-backed magazine about sample preparation, electrophoresis, chromatography, genomics, and laboratory informatics

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.

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

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

• 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.

• The Health Care Blog: "everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask."

• 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.

• The Informatics Nurse: a WordPress-based guide to nursing informatics

• 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"

• 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

• Out on a LIMS: covers the topics of LIMS, ELN, and other aspects of laboratory informatics, by Gloria Metrick (now archived)

• PLOS Blogs Network: "provide a venue for Open Science news and updates as well as diverse perspectives on science and medicine from across our researcher communities."

• 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 and organizational blogs

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

• AmericanEHR Blog: the official blogs of AmericanEHR Partners, which "features original commentary, opinion pieces, and news stories about electronic health records (EHRs) and the meaningful use of health information technology."

• Astrix Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics consultancy Astrix, Inc.

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

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

• Citrine Informatics Blog: the official blog of material informatics software developer Citrine Informatics

• CSols Blog: the official blog of laboratory informatics consultancy CSols, Inc.

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

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

• Illumina Informatics Blog: the offical blog of laboratory informatics software developer Illumina, Inc.

• KevinMD Tech Blogs: these represent the medical tech-related blogs of KevinMD, "where physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses, medical students, and patients share their insight and tell their stories."

• Key Management Group Blog: the official blogs of KMG, with views on technology, healthcare, and more

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

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

• 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.

• Nursing Informatics Learning Center Blog: the official blog of the Nursing Informatics Learning Center

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

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

Open-source project blogs

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

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

Web portals

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This is a collection of news portals and user communities 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.
 

• AAPC Medical Billing and Coding Forum: an AAPC-hosted user forum for discussing medical billing and coding

• AmericanEHR: a web portal of EHR reviews given by verified end users

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

• ASCLS Open Forum: an ASCLS-hosted user forum for discussing clinical laboratory science

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

• 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"

• Forens-L Email Discussion List: a forum and email discussion list for forensic scientists and laboratorians of all disciplines

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

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

• Healthcare IT Briefing: a web portal "covering the people, policy and technology driving next-generation healthcare in the U.S."

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

• krisp: formerly "BioAfrica.net," this portal contains a variety of information about the application of genomics, precision medicine, and big data in Africa

• Laboratory LOINC: a user forum for discussing the application of LOINC in laboratory test ordering

• LabWrench: a comprehensive user forum for discussing various aspects of lab equipment, instruments, and their use

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

• Mobi Health News: provides "the latest news in digital health"

• PathLabTalk: a user forum for discussing work in a pathology laboratory

• 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"

• 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

Main page: LIMSWiki:Resources/Organizations

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"

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."

• AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Program: "to produce and disseminate evidence about how the evolving digital healthcare ecosystem can best advance the quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare for patients and their families."

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

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

• Computational and Predictive Biology Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "brings together and collaborates with scientists from related experimental, computational, and technical disciplines to build increasingly detailed computational models of biological systems."

• 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)

• 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 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"

• 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.
 

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

• Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society: a social portal for education and collaboration on technology in healthcare

• GMANE: a public mail / bulletin board system for numerous fields of science and tech; in January 2020, major changes were taking place, and the available discussion lists were only available via a newsreader, until a website was recreated containing more info

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

• IAMA mailing lists: the Indian Association for Medical Informatics mailing lists

• Inospin: an "academia-industry partnering network for scientific innovations in pharma & biotech, veterinary, crop science & agriculture, food & beverages, medtech, consumer care & cosmetics, chemistry, material sciences, IT and engineering"

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

• Laboratory Research & Innovation Group on LinkedIn: formerly the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group, this association has a discussion board on LinkedIn

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

• LIMSforum: a diverse web portal and discussion group for anything related to laboratory and scientific 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.gov: 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, including Subcommittee E13.15 on Analytical Data

• ASTM Standards Under the Jurisdiction of E31 - Healthcare Informatics: ASTM Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics

• 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

• https://www.icn.ch/what-we-do/projects/ehealth-icnptm 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 Standards: "NCPDP standards have transformed the pharmacy industry, saving billions of dollars in health system costs while increasing patient safety and quality of care."

• 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

• 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 (Archived)

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: a website to assist applicants with applying for eHealth jobs

• HireLifeScience.com : an "employment resource and networking tool to connect you to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and life science industries"

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

• LIMSforum.com Career Opportunities: a good source for LIMS- and LIS-related work

• 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.

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Miscellaneous

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Projects

• 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

• 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

• 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

Videos

• Autoscribe Informatics Videos: videos from laboratory informatics developer Autoscribe Informatics, Inc.

• CSols Videos: videos from laboratory informatics consultancy CSols, Inc.

• Technology Networks Informatics Videos: videos from Technology Networks

Bids and RFPs

• LIMSforum Bid Opportunities: postings of laboratory informatics software and laboratory analysis bid opportunities at LIMSforum, updated weekly.

• InstantMarkets - Laboratory: a search for bid opportunities for "laboratory" on InstantMarkets.