Established by the United States Congress in 1968, the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) furthers biomedicine through data science research and application development. LHNCBC’s work is used across the world in biomedical research and by health professionals.

LHNCBC’s Applied Clinical Informatics Branch (ACIB) focuses on developing innovative solutions for complex biomedical informatics challenges for researchers, clinicians, and health care professionals. Examples of applications resulting from ACIB’s work include:

• Medical Terminology Standards- leverage biomedical terminologies and ontologies and their applications to natural language processing, clinical decision support, translational medicine, data integration and interoperability.
• LHC FHIR Tools - tools that assist users in maximizing FHIR data and support standardization.
• Malaria Project - uses machine learning methods then detect whether parasites are present in blood samples, perform the counting, and discriminate between infected and uninfected cells.