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  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 432 Eskind Biomedical Library, 2209 Garland Avenue, Nashville, 37232-8340, TN, USA

    Mark E. Frisse MD, MS, MBA

  2. Division of Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Rockledge 1, Suite 301, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA

    Valerie Florance PhD

  3. Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, 02446, MA, USA

    Kenneth D. Mandl MD, MPH

  4. Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics and Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, 02115, MA, USA

    Isaac S. Kohane MD, PhD

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Frisse, M.E., Florance, V., Mandl, K.D., Kohane, I.S. (2014). The Future of Informatics in Biomedicine. In: Shortliffe, E., Cimino, J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_28

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