Laboratory Informatics: An Increasingly Valuable Commodity Emerging from Today’s Laboratories
Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Informatics Scientific Assembly Vice Chair Informatics is the study of data, and their use. Often, but not always, the data may be in information or computer systems. Health informatics is, therefore, the generation and use of data used in healthcare, while laboratory informatics is the study of laboratory data. Many…