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Medical Informatics

Medical informatics is a department within Amsterdam UMC working on the intersection of information science, computer science, and healthcare. Our goal is to enhance health and healthcare by investigating how biomedical data, information (technology), and knowledge can be effectively utilized for scientific research, problem-solving, and decision-making.

News

Research lines

Reusable health data
Methods in Medical Informatics
Human Factor Engineering
Quality of care (IT systems)
Epidemiology of kidney disease
PharmacoInformatics

Medical informatics as field or education

What is Medical Informatics?

Medical informatics is a scientific field on the intersection of information science, computer science, and healthcare. Our goal is to enhance health and healthcare by investigating how biomedical data, information (technology), and knowledge can be effectively utilized for scientific research, problem-solving, and decision-making.

Doing a PhD

When you do your PhD at the Department of Medical Informatics, your colleagues will have diverse backgrounds and will be working in various specialties (medical, pharmacology, data analysis, data science, artificial intelligence, epidemiology).

Find more information on a PhD trajectory at our department.

Education

Education activities of our department include the bachelor’s and master’s degree in Medical Informatics, education within the master’s program in medicine at AMC-UvA and the postmaster’s program in health informatics for professionals (completely online).

PhD day 2025

Working on three registries

ERA registry and ESPN/ERA registry

The ERA Registry collects demographic and clinical data on adult patients with kidney replacement therapy. The ESPN/ERA Registry collects these data for pediatric patients.

NHR – National Heart Registration

The NHR collects data on all cardiac interventions performed in the Netherlands. The registration follows patients with a heart disease through all stages of the treatment process.

NICE – National Intensive Care Evaluation

The NICE maintains continuous and complete data registration from all Dutch intensive care units (ICUs) to monitor and improve the quality of ICU care.

The processing of NICE, NHR and ERA registry are part of the quality- and information security management system Medical registries KIK. The management system is certified according to ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and the NEN 7510-1:2017+A1:2020 standard.

Publications

Technical reports

A list with technical reports of the department of Medical Informatics

Events