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health informatics

A term that means variously:
(1) The range of information technology (IT) and information-analysis skills and services required in the NHS.
(2) The application of IT to improve management of patient data, population data and other information relevant to patient care and community health, teaching, biomedical research, and advancing medical knowledge.
(3) The cognitive processes of medical decision-making and processing of medical information, including the technology and communication tasks of medical practice, education and research.
 
Branches
Bioinformatics, clinical informatics, consumer-health informatics.
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health in·for·mat·ics

(helth in'fōr-mat'iks)
The practice and technology of collecting, storing, and analyzing health care data electronically and transferring data between computer systems.
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This proposed discipline leverages information systems architecture, semantic ontology approaches to data management and engineering, and algorithms and mathematic approaches from machine learning and biomedical informatics to focus on unique computational challenges--particularly those that derive from the broad range of unique data streams created in our diagnostic, translational, and basic science laboratories.
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Stead, McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., said during a press briefing.
William W Stead, McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., said during a press briefing.
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A first section explains biomedical informatics and how it is applied to radiation oncology.
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