Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 10 - Health and related fields
• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.27 - Medical illustration and informatics

51.2706 - Medical informatics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of computer science and software engineering to medical research and clinical information technology support, and the development of advanced imaging, database, and decision systems. These programs include courses in computer science, health information systems architecture, medical knowledge structures, medical language and image processing, quantitative medical decision modelling, imaging techniques, electronic medical records, medical research systems, clinical decision support, and informatics aspects of specific research and practice problems.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • biomedical informatics
  • health informatics
  • medical informatics

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• Exclusion(s)

  • bioinformatics(26.1103)
  • computational biology(26.1104)
  • medical illustration(51.2703)