At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Define the informatics industry and describe current trends.
• Define terminologies and ontologies used in health care.
• Describe what clinical research informatics is.
• Define what data elements are and how they are used, and describe important points about data governance.
• Define natural language processing and list tools that can be used.
• Describe standards relevant to clinical decision support and identify research on CDS projects.