James J. Cimino
Encyclopedia
James J. Cimino, MD, is a physician-scientist and biomedical informatician
. He pioneered the theory and formalisms of medical concept representation underpinning the use of controlled medical vocabularies
in electronic medical records in support of clinical decision-making
. Training under Octo Barnett at Harvard University, he also contributed to the initiation of the Unified Medical Language System
. In addition, he actively practices medicine as an internist and has devoted many years to develop and innovate clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center
.
Currently, Dr. Cimino is Chief of Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
. Dr. Cimino has published over 175 articles.
Health informatics
.Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...
. He pioneered the theory and formalisms of medical concept representation underpinning the use of controlled medical vocabularies
Controlled vocabulary
Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. They are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri, taxonomies and other form of knowledge organization systems...
in electronic medical records in support of clinical decision-making
Decision making
Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.- Overview :Human performance in decision terms...
. Training under Octo Barnett at Harvard University, he also contributed to the initiation of the Unified Medical Language System
Unified Medical Language System
The Unified Medical Language System is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences . It provides a mapping structure among these vocabularies and thus allows one to translate among the various terminology systems; it may also be viewed as a comprehensive thesaurus and...
. In addition, he actively practices medicine as an internist and has devoted many years to develop and innovate clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University Medical Center is an academic medical center that includes Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing and Mailman School of Public Health...
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Currently, Dr. Cimino is Chief of Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. Dr. Cimino has published over 175 articles.