health informatics
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discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- medical specialty
- Subclass of
- medicine
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- Commons category
- Medical informatics
- topic's main category
- Category:Medical informatics
- topic has template
- Template:Health informatics
- facet of
- health care
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Encyclopedic overview
Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer science to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information. It can be viewed as a branch of engineering and applied science.
The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “health informatics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.