Biomedical informatics is the broad discipline concerned with the study and application of computer science, information science, informatics, cognitive science and human-computer interaction in the practice of biological research, biomedical science, medicine and healthcare. Other fields, including bioinformatics, translational research informatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics and public health informatics, medical informatics are commonly cast as sister domains of or subdomains within biomedical informatics.[Source: Wikipedia]
This topic is addressed in the ICT work programme (p.65) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Objective ICT-2011.5.2 Virtual Physiological Human
a) Patient-specific predictive computer-based models and simulation
