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Taxonomy: Biomedical Health Informatics

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Health informatics; Healthcare informatics; Biomedical informatics

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Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care [2]. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize 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. Subdomains of (bio) medical or health care informatics include: clinical informatics, nursing informatics, imaging informatics, consumer health informatics, public health informatics, dental informatics, clinical research informatics, bioinformatics, veterinary informatics, pharmacy informatics, and healthcare management informatics. An alternative characterization refers to this field as biomedical informatics [1] takes a broader perspective including the application...

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  1. Biomedical Informatics, http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Biomedical_informatics

  2. Health Informatics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_informatics

  3. E.H. and Shortliffe J.J. eds. Cimino Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd edn. Springer, New York, 2006.

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  1. Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Kashyap, V. (2009). Taxonomy: Biomedical Health Informatics. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1355

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