Table 2.

Proposal of competencies for domain 2: biomedical informatics.

Subdomains		Areas of competence
Data collection
	D2.1	Differences between data, information, and knowledge and their relationship
	D2.2	Most relevant sources and types of data in the field of personalized precision medicine, as well as the information that each of them can provide
	D2.3	Primary and secondary use of health data and main databases, along with their applications in the specific areas of activity
	D2.4	Strategies to improve data quality
	D2.5	Data life cycle and the importance of complying with FAIRa principles to enable its use
	D2.6	Sharing of data, information, and knowledge generated within the framework of personalized precision medicine, as well as the main national and international initiatives in health data management
Data management
	D2.7	Mechanisms to guarantee confidentiality, protection, and security and/or maintain anonymity in the storage of health data and information, ensuring the right to privacy and making appropriate use of the information
	D2.8	Most common data storage resources (centralized/federated databases) and the possibilities offered by each
	D2.9	Main ontologies and normalization standards in the field of health that would facilitate interoperability and data exchange
	D2.10	Incorporation of information in the electronic health record in an appropriate manner, ensuring its quality to guarantee that it is subsequently used
	D2.11	Legislative framework on the use and management of sensitive data and digital rights: the European regulation GDPRb and the national regulation OLPDPGDRc [68,69]
Data analysis and interpretation of information
	D2.12	Methodologies available to perform data analysis: how the analysis is performed, the difficulties and limitations it presents, the quality of the data, etc
	D2.13	Software available for use in current clinical practice
	D2.14	Programming languages in health data analysis
	D2.15	Main technological trends that would be more important in the immediate future (eg, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, etc)

^aFAIR: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability.

^bGDPR^: General Data Protection Regulation.

^cOLPDPGDR: Organic Law 3/2018 on Personal Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights.