As the nation's premier repository of biomedical information, NLM has a vital interest in information management and in the enormous utility of computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.
Grants are available to investigate the management and utilization of biomedical information.
Same as Internet Connection Grants, and primarily directed to small to medium-sized health science institutions, for example, hospitals. May encompass whole systems, seek to establish connectivity of system components, or provide support for improvements to the infrastructure. Same as Internet Connection Grants, and primarily directed to larger health science institutions such as academic health science institutions and hospitals. The goal is to create an organizational mechanism to manage more effectively the knowledge of medicine, and provide for a system of comprehensive and convenient information access. Training is usually in general medical informatics, but some programs permit special emphasis in such subfields of informatics as radiation oncology, nursing informatics, dental informatics, and informatics of special interest to librarians.