Predictive informatics is the combination of predictive modeling and informatics

Informatics (academic field)

Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

 applied to healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences and business industries.

Predictive informatics enables researchers, analysts, physicians and decision-makers to aggregate and analyze disparate types of data, recognize patterns and trends within that data, and make more informed decisions in an effort to preemptively alter future outcomes.

Healthcare

Over the past decade the increased usage of electronic health records has produced vast amounts of clinical data that is now computable. Predictive informatics integrates this data with other datasets (e.g., genotypic, phenotypic) in centralized and standardized data repositories upon which predictive analytics may be conducted.

Pharmaceuticals

The biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs produced using biotechnology. They include proteins , nucleic acids and living microorganisms like virus and bacteria where the virulence of viruses and bacteria is reduced by the process of attenuation, they can be used for therapeutic or in vivo diagnostic...

 industry uses predictive informatics (a superset of chemoinformatics) to integrate information resources to transform data into knowledge in order to make better decisions faster in the area of drug lead identification and optimization.

Systems biology

Scientists involved in systems biology

Systems biology

Systems biology is a term used to describe a number of trends in bioscience research, and a movement which draws on those trends. Proponents describe systems biology as a biology-based inter-disciplinary study field that focuses on complex interactions in biological systems, claiming that it uses...

 employ predictive informatics to integrate complex data about the interactions in biological systems from diverse experimental sources.

Other uses

Predictive informatics and analytics are also used in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, and travel industries.

See also

• Predictive analytics
  Predictive analytics
  Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events....
  
  
• Informatics (academic field)
  Informatics (academic field)
  Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
  
  
• Predictive modeling
• Biomedical informatics
• Chemoinformatics

Further reading

• Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Burdette Pixton, and Roberto A. Rocha. (2009) "Bariatric surgery performance: A predictive informatics case study". Intell. Data Anal., 13 (5), 741–754.
• Krohn R. (2008) "Predictive informatics. Why PI is the next great opportunity in healthcare", J Healthc Inf Manag, 22(1):8–9.

External links

• Predictive Informatics: What Is Its Place in Healthcare? Christophe G Giraud-Carrier (2009), Brigham Young University