medical informatics

English

Noun

medical informatics (uncountable)

1. (medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to medicine: the application of information science and information technology to medical care and any other health care.

Hypernyms

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

Coordinate terms

• nursing informatics

See also

• bioinformatics