BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is delighted to announce the launch of a new thematic series, ‘Open data for discovery science’. Given the ever increasing availability and complexity of open data in the biological, clinical and population level domains that can be used to inform both research and decision-making, it is critical to build a body of methodological and applied knowledge that can ensure reproducible and rigorous approaches to such activities. This series aims to bring together research from leaders in the field into advances in the use of open data.   

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making attended Informatics for Health 2017 in Manchester at the end of April, here we look back at some of the highlights.

Dr. Payne is the founding Director of the Institute for Informatics (I2) at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as the Robert J. Terry Professor in the School of Medicine. He joined the editorial board of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making as Section Editor in 2016.