Health and Medical Informatics
Research on health and medical information leverages text mining and data mining techniques, increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence and machine learning, applied to linked, multi-source data to identify patterns, predict risks, and support evidence-based decision-making. By integrating unstructured text data, such as clinical notes, claims narratives, and social media content, with structured data, including electronic health records, insurance claims, demographic variables, and environmental or neighborhood-level factors, AI-driven models can capture complex, nonlinear relationships and temporal patterns that traditional approaches often miss.