health informatics

English

Noun

health informatics (uncountable)

1. (medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to health and health care: the application of information science and information technology to health (that is, to its maintenance or improvement).

Hypernyms

• informatics

Hyponyms

• medical informatics (usually synonymous in practice, despite the plesionymic potential, except when differentiated from nursing informatics as a coordinate term)

See also

• bioinformatics