Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine, National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services

As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information understandable and useful. Informatics tools--which help collect, organize, and analyze data--are essential to biomedical and health research and development. The field of cancer research is facing an overwhelming deluge of data, heightening the national urgency to find solutions to support and sustain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309259487
• ISBN13: 9780309259484
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 146 Pages