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The Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics [BCHI] Study Section reviews applications that focus on informatics, using a biomedical discovery, process or clinical question to demonstrate and/or validate the informatics and computing approaches.  The emphasis is on direct population applications. Applications in which informatics is used as a tool in the biomedical discovery process, or to support clinical studies, would be assigned to the scientific review group dealing with the particular biomedical or clinical topics.  Specific areas covered include:

• Application of human-centered computing (human-machine interfaces), intelligent systems, virtual environments, computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment systems with data including  imaging data and telemedicine to biomedical and clinical systems, including the study of collaboration to engineer-usable effective software systems.
• Application of modeling and simulation methods to various levels of normal and pathophysiological processes. Mathematical modeling of physiological functions/systems, where the outcome is of medical/clinical import and the purpose of the model is to inform medical decision making. Application of data analysis, management and mining in the areas of electronic medical records, picture archiving, tele-imaging, robotics, consumer informatics, and population-based databases.
• Medical and biomedical knowledge and information-management systems, including ontologies and controlled vocabularies.
• Application of clinical and biomedical software engineering, including validation of software in clinical settings.
• Application of advanced computing architectures to questions in biomedical and clinical information and knowledge management.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Biomedical Imaging Technology  
Small Business Biomedical Imaging 
Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences 
Small Business Biomedical Sensing, Measurement and Instrumentation 
Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies 
Neurotechnology