Healthcare informatics

Healthcare Informatics has been defined as:

"A field of study concerned with the broad range of issues in the management and use of biomedical information, including medical computing and the study of the nature of medical information itself." - Shortliffe EH, Perreault LE, eds. Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. New York: Springer, 2001.

"The science that studies the use and processing of data, information, and knowledge applied to medicine, health care and public health." - van Bemmel JH, Musen MA, eds. Handbook of Medical Informatics. AW Houten, Netherlands: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum; Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1997.