Applications of medical informatics in allergy/immunology.
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.
Dinakarpandian
Deendayal
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School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA.
Lee
Yugyung
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Dinakar
Chitra
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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