What is medical informatics?
The term medical informatics was borrowed from the French expression informatique médicale.We can define Health informatics as the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required optimizing the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems.Simply its the science of medical information collection and management.
Medical informatics includes:
Patient-Oriented Systems: systems which collect, store and retrieve data about individual patients like Financial systems, Electronic medical records ,Research databases Medical Information Resources:systems which contain general medical knowledge like Electronic textbooks,Computer-assisted instruction Medical Knowledge Systems:systems which apply general medical knowledge, whether through pattern matching or application of clinical algorithms, to specific patients.
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