Definition
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...