Medical informatics

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Medical Informatics

Medical informatics (pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪkəl ɪnfərˈmætɪks/) is a discipline at the intersection of informatics, medicine, and healthcare. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.

Etymology

The term "medical informatics" was first used in the 1960s and is a combination of "medical", from the Latin medicus meaning "pertaining to physicians", and "informatics", from the French informatique which is a blend of information and automatic.

Related Terms

  • Health Informatics: An interdisciplinary field that applies computer, information, and cognitive sciences to promote the effective and efficient use and analysis of information to improve health care.
  • Bioinformatics: The science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data such as genetic codes.
  • Clinical Informatics: The application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services.
  • Public Health Informatics: The systematic application of information, computer science, and technology to public health practice, research, and learning.

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