title: Applications of medical informatics in allergy/immunology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a general overview of informatics and its interface with allergy/immunology.
  
  
  METHODS
  The PubMed interface to MEDLINE was searched with the keywords asthma, allergy, or immunology together with the keywords informatics, bioinformatics, and information technology to retrieve the articles relevant to this review.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors' knowledge of the field was used to include sources of information other than those obtained through the MEDLINE search.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A survey of informatics, with emphasis on the relevance to allergy, asthma, and immunology, is presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Several innovative informatics approaches have significant potential to improve health care on diverse fronts. Newer methods of information representation are poised to facilitate the impact of cutting-edge research on clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA.
authors.forename: Deendayal
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dinakarpandian
authors.forename: Yugyung
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chitra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dinakar
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing / Q000639:trends; D013686:Telemetry / Q000639:trends