health informatics
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discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, health informatics is referenced by 995 other articles, and connects out to electronic health records, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and United States.
It is catalogued under the topic Health informatics.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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.