About Us Biomedical Informatics
Improving human health and health care systems
Our division consists of various faculty backgrounds and specialty areas that allows for our department to be diverse in our research, analysis, interpretations, and helps our team and UK HealthCare transform healthcare information and data into better healthcare delivery and discovery and always aiming to solve problems for our patients, families and UK HealthCare teams.
The division of biomedical informatics is an interdisciplinary field focused on a variety of data, information, and knowledge used to help improve human health. The field draws from Computer and Data Science, Medicine Biology, Statistics, and most recently Medical Artificial Intelligence, where it can assist in early disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment while also analyzing large sets of data to improve our healthcare systems.
Our Mission
To create a high performing unit using technology to help transform health and healthcare, improve patient care and diagnosis, identify and reduce health disparities, and educate the next generation of data scientists and analysts on advanced research, and generating and applying biomedical knowledge through data driven insights
Our Vision
To address the unique healthcare challenges within the state while positioning the University of Kentucky to be a world leader in data-driven solutions within the healthcare domain.
Our Goals
Advanced Discovery: through research, data interpretation, healthy policies, and data/technology, it will help apply methods and tools to analyze and interpret complex data that can turn into access and actional knowledge for researchers and clinicians alike
Empowerment: providing education and engagement with those using the data to develop systems that give patients, families, and providers better access to health information. It provides lifelong learning opportunities to all constitutes to understand and connect with content provided
Improving Health Outcomes and Patient Care: through individualized treatment plans and promoting self-monitoring for better health outcomes and preventative care, as well as creating a better decision making process for provided at the point of care
Enhancing Health Systems: continuing to assist in streamlining healthcare systems and procedures to reduce costs and time, as well as providing accessibility to information, and also assisting in best protecting patient confidentiality