Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine
(MIM Centre)
The MIM Centre aspires:
- to be a centre of excellence specialising in research, education and training, and consultancy at the leading edge of medical and health
informatics
- to be an accepted leader in the application of medical and health informatics in medicine, health care and the related
industries
- to promote medical and health informatics and application through publications, education and
training
Activities include:
- Applied and contract research
- Research training and postgraduate
education
- Short course provision for clinicians, scientists and
managers
- Consultancy for health care provider institutions and
industry
- The focus of the activities of the MIM Centre is Medical and Health
Informatics
Disciplines concerned with the theory and practice of information technology in the:
Acquisition, processing, interpretation and
dissemination of Clinical and Health Care Data in patient care, clinical research,
clinical education and health management
The tools and methods used by the MIM Centre in this activity include:
- systems analysis
- modelling
- measurement and instrumentation
- advanced computational methods
- knowledge-based techniques
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The MIM Centre carries out its activities, working in very close co-operation with leading hospitals and other clinical and health-related institutions
in the UK, including:
- United Medical and Dental School of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals (UMDS) (formal co-operative agreement for research and education in Medical Informatics)
- Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital
- Mayday University Hospital
- King's College Hospital
- St Bartholomew's Hospital
- John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
International collaboration includes joint research and educational ventures with:
- Denmark - Aalborg University
- Finland - National Medical Engineering Lab, Tampere
- Greece - Ergo S.A.; University of Athens
- Hungary - Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest
- Italy - University of Perugia; University of Padova
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