Medical informatics

]] Medical Informatics is the name given to the application of information technology to healthcare. It is the:

"understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health" (British Medical Informatics Society).

Medical informatics is often called health informatics. This later-generation term reflects the substantive contribution of the citizen and of non-medical professions to the generation and usage of healthcare data.

Table of contents

1 Aspects of the field
2 See also
3 External links

Aspects of the field

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These include:

architectures for electronic medical records
messages for the exchange of information (for example, through the use of the HL7 data standard)
decision support systems in healthcare
terminology systems and domain termlists
and more mainstream systems and services as they apply particularly in the healthcare domain (such as any security implications unique to the protection of medical data)