The Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics (GIBI) under College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, is the first graduate school in Taiwan for this inter-discipline field to bridge informatics to bio-medicine. The vision of GIBI is to integrate professional medical knowledge with computerized information technology in a way that benefit patients directly and efficiency. On the other hand we also take advantage of modern computer advancements to support the development of medical research.
The planning and development direction of GIMI’s programs are to combine medical and information science so that meets the requirements of information technology era. In doing so, the medical informatics taught here covers basic and clinical medicine in modern computer, computing IT, IT network communications, and conventional medical informatics database knowledge that can be applied to the diagnosis, treatment, education, and literature research of other relevant fields.
As the nature of biomedical informatics is multidisciplinary, GIMI has built an incredibly strong team from diversified backgrounds. The GIMI team includes healthcare professional, computer scientist, statistician, bioinformatics experts and international visiting professors. The GIMI team promotes following:
Training: Providing higher education on biomedical informatics to cater the urgent requirements of biomedical informatics experts
- Research: Building research team to work on solutions which would help to ensure a ubiquitous, quality and affordable healthcare for all
- Development: Establish partnership with various healthcare/IT organizations allowing students to develop products and go beyond training and research
