The hippocampus is a part of the forebrain, located in the medial temporal lobe. It belongs to the limbic system and plays major roles in long term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain.
The project seeks to develop an ethical and policy framework for building a medical information commons â a networked environment in which diverse sources of health, medical and genomic data on large populations become broadly available for research and clinical use.
I often get this question, along with blank stares, when telling people what I am studying. Some of the blankest looks come from those in the medical profession. Medical Informatics is the study of information and its flow in the healthcare setting. Typically you can think of it as âcomputers in medicineâ, but it concerns everything from discussions at the watercooler and sticky notes on the wall, to the medical records and billing departments.