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Medical Informatics is the name given to the application of information technology to healthcare. It is the:
- "understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health" (British Medical Informatics Society).
Medical informatics is often called health informatics. This later-generation term reflects the substantive contribution of the citizen and of non-medical professions to the generation and usage of healthcare data.
Aspects of the field
These include:
- architectures for electronic healthcare records
- messages for the exchange of information (for example, through the use of the HL7 data standard)
- decision support systems in healthcare
- terminology systems and domain termlists
- and more mainstream systems and services as they apply particularly in the healthcare domain (such as any security implications unique to the protection of medical data)